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Quick Question - Please Help!

  • 11-05-2011 11:25am
    #1
    wavey1990
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭


    ken.jpg

    Sorry now, new to Photography... Just wondering does anybody know hot to take pics like this? Is it a certain camera you need to buy or a certain setting. I don't want to use it to take skate pics, just normal pics with that effect... Thanks!!


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  • #2
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    Looks like a fisheye lens, with some post processing to enhance the effect.


  • #3
    Effects
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Effects


    Lomo do a fisheye camera that shoots film. Gives similar results to that.


  • #4
    Promac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭Promac


    It's a 180 degree fisheye lens:

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1B7GGLL_en-GBGB425&biw=1009&bih=763&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=180+degree+fisheye&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=


  • #5
    wavey1990
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭wavey1990


    Thanks very much, just needed the name.... Would I have to buy a specific lens or could the same effect be achieved for a normally taken pic in post processing?


  • #6
    Promac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭Promac


    You could do a fisheye effect in photoshop but you'd lose a load of the original image. An option would be to take a load of pictures and stitch them together before applying the effect.


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  • #7
    jaybeeveedub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭jaybeeveedub


    I could be wrong here, but I'd wager that that is a PS imitation of fisheye....

    There doesn't seem to be enough distortion of the skater, who take up the most of the frame, his feet look normal, and given the relation between the foreground and him I don't think it looks like a non-ultra wide...

    In my recollection, his feet would be totally sideshow-bob in comparison to his midriff as would his hand at the edge of frame

    as I say I could be wrong, I haven't shot a fisheye in years, but having used UWA a lot, my instinct is that its an effect


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