A fisheye lens is a fun to play with when you first get one, but after a while the bending of straight lines gets old. However, one of the most unique applications of a fisheye is to shoot round or curved subjects. For example, the photo you see here was taken in the stunning monastery at Melk, Austria a couple of days ago (I'm traveling in Europe right now, which is why I haven't posted blogs in the last couple of weeks -- after shooting all day I'm exhausted), and it is a multi-level spiral staircase. Since it was curved already, the fisheye couldn’t make it more curved. While there is distortion going on here, it’s not obvious at all since the artistic curves were already there.
I used a 15mm Canon fisheye to shoot this. Tripods weren’t allowed, so I hand held this at 400 ISO and I shot one stop down from wide open. Fisheyes have outrageous depth of field, and even though the lens was about two or three feet to the immediate foreground, even at f/4 I was able to get complete depth of field.
1 comments:
whoa I'm going to try this with the lighthouse steps next time I go to Daytona (Ponce Inlet Lighthouse). That will look really neat. Thanks for the idea.
Donna
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