Gas Works

pete4130

Looking through some old photos from last year and thought I'd do some work with this one. Any C&C appreciated.

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Excellent

Borderfox

Is that a panoramic or a fisheye?

pete4130

It was shot with the Nikon 10.5 fisheye, but I had to do a slight rotation and crop as the horizon was less than level!

shepthedog

Very cool efffect, thats a cool shot.. Have never used a fisheye, do you find much use for it??

ike

I like this too kinda of a Sin City feel to it!

pete4130

Yeah, I'd use fisheye quite a lot. I shoot BMX with it mostly. It's a nice lens to have for getting a different perspective on things. It's very easy when you first get a fisheye to overuse it and to not use it to its full potential (very very easy to snap off shots and be happy with getting so much in). Once you learn that your sense of perspective is enormous with fisheye and your minimum focussing distance is very small you start getting much closer to subjects and getting the most from the lens.

Thanks for the feedback.

m_stan

that is one wicked wicked shot. LOVE it ! are you on a cropped sensor camera or not ?

pete4130

Yeah it was shot on a Nikon D200, so it would have the 1.5x crop factor but the 10.5mm fisheye is a digital specific fisheye so you get your full 180 degree diagonals.

Thanks mstan

Masada

i saw that shot somewhere before, maybe on flicker., brilliant one man, well done

GristlyEnd

Lovely image. Now I'm tempted by a fisheye (but I won't as I promised myself no more lenses :rolleyes:)

pete4130

vtec, you probably saw this one I shot before. Thanks for the comment



Thanks Darren, buy the fisheye, its such a fun lens and you never know what something will look like until you stick it on your camera and look through the viewfinder. Think they work out about €450 from the states? I'd swap for your 300mm 2.8 anyday!

Fenster

Ooh, very nice.

Borderfox

Superb shots Pete, the second one with the tree in the centre is brilliant too.

Third_Echelon

Brilliant shots... The colour shot is really nice...

As someone else said there... I am now very tempted to try and pick up one of these lenses!

Rojo

Funny, there's an article on the Gas Works in the times today! Apparently, the developer hasn't sold nearly enough apartments and now seeks permission to turn some of it into a hotel!

Chunky Monkey

Thats really cool Is it possible to get a filter rather than a lens? That's what I always thought they were.

pete4130

Filters are not possible realistically for the nikon 10.5 mm fisheye. My older 15mm Sigma Fisheye (for fullframe cameras) DOES have a slot behind the rear element for gel filters to be slipped into, but it's quite awkward to put in and remove and even harder to keep the gel clear of fingerprints!

Chunky Monkey

Oh dear, well very very nice shots

Mellor

pete4130 wrote: »

Filters are not possible realistically for the nikon 10.5 mm fisheye. My older 15mm Sigma Fisheye (for fullframe cameras) DOES have a slot behind the rear element for gel filters to be slipped into, but it's quite awkward to put in and remove and even harder to keep the gel clear of fingerprints!

I think he meant is it possible to get a fisheye attachment that screws in like a filter,
a "filter instead of lens"

pete4130

As in Photoshop or plug in filters? Yeah there are some available. Some do a better job than others at removing distortion. I think a common problem with some of the filters for correcting the fisheye distortion is the increase in noise in the shadow areas. Here are 2 examples of post processing filters:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/dxo/optics-pro.htm

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/fisheye-hemi.htm

I only saw these filters a few days ago but it really made me think about getting one, probably the DXO filter, but I've noticed there is some cropping of the image. I think shooting with fisheye you choose to have the fisheye style and look to the image. I think the plug in filters could be useful for architectural stuff though.

EDIt: sorry yes i misread the reply about a filter instead of a lens. Photoshop does have a fisheye filter I think but AFAIR it just creates the effect of fisheye but cant come anywhere near to giving a wide an angle, unless perhaps a couple of images were stitched together?

Mellor

no, not in photoshop, a physical attachment thats screws in like a phyiscal filter, to the end of an existing lens
like this;
http://cgi.ebay.ie/42x-HD-Fisheye-Fish-Eye-Lens-for-Canon-EOS-EF-Camera_W0QQitemZ190187937689QQihZ009QQcategoryZ30070QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

pete4130

Mellor wrote: »

no, not in photoshop, a physical attachment thats screws in like a phyiscal filter, to the end of an existing lens
like this;
http://cgi.ebay.ie/42x-HD-Fisheye-Fish-Eye-Lens-for-Canon-EOS-EF-Camera_W0QQitemZ190187937689QQihZ009QQcategoryZ30070QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Oh right, I get you now. I can't check ebay here in work so I can't comment on the link you posted but I have used those fisheye adaptors years ago before I got a proper fisheye lens. They generally aren't that good. The glass is cheap and you lose alot of light coming through the lens, usually at least 1 f stop. The sharpness usually gets quite bad towards the edges and corners and depending on the lens you mount them on. There can be a coluor cast and a reduction in colour contrast and probably vignetting in the corners. the cheap adaptors don't do much in correcting distortion either. Thats just been my experience using a fisheye adaptor on a Pentax 35-80mm lens years ago.

They are fine for a cheap fix but you literally do get what you pay for with wide glass. I think the cheapest decent fisheyes are some manual focus russian made ones, Peleng I think they are called. Probably a few quid more than the adaptors but I'd imagine the quality would be far better.