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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 115203" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>I love shooting with my 16mm f/2.8 Fisheye AIS Nikkor, it never seems to disappoint when it comes to interesting images. Below is a stock file photo I found on the web of the water tower at our beach water tower. It is painted to look, appropriately enough, like a beach ball. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]27353[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I stood at the base of the water tower and pointed my fisheye almost straight up to get a really unique perspetive distortion of it. This one was shot with the D700. The sky was already a beautiful deep blue, but since digital sensors are relatively insensitive to blue light, it deepened the sky even further, to what one might expect using a polarizer. The lighting almost gave a pearlescent quality to the white paint of the tower. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]27354[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>But all is not fun and games with fisheyes. It can be used for serious work too. I took this image for a model shoot, also using the fisheye. Amber was maybe 8 feet away at the most, from me for this shot. I used fill flash to add light to her because I had exposed for the ambient light and she was backlit. I intentionally pointed the lens down somewhat so it would give the horizon an upward bend. This older lens is so well designed and coated that although though the sun is directly in the frame, there are NO ghosts whatsoever. Gotta love that old classic Nikkon glass! This image was eventually used in a travel brochure for our beach. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]27355[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STM, post: 115203, member: 12827"] I love shooting with my 16mm f/2.8 Fisheye AIS Nikkor, it never seems to disappoint when it comes to interesting images. Below is a stock file photo I found on the web of the water tower at our beach water tower. It is painted to look, appropriately enough, like a beach ball. [ATTACH=CONFIG]27353._xfImport[/ATTACH] I stood at the base of the water tower and pointed my fisheye almost straight up to get a really unique perspetive distortion of it. This one was shot with the D700. The sky was already a beautiful deep blue, but since digital sensors are relatively insensitive to blue light, it deepened the sky even further, to what one might expect using a polarizer. The lighting almost gave a pearlescent quality to the white paint of the tower. [ATTACH=CONFIG]27354._xfImport[/ATTACH] But all is not fun and games with fisheyes. It can be used for serious work too. I took this image for a model shoot, also using the fisheye. Amber was maybe 8 feet away at the most, from me for this shot. I used fill flash to add light to her because I had exposed for the ambient light and she was backlit. I intentionally pointed the lens down somewhat so it would give the horizon an upward bend. This older lens is so well designed and coated that although though the sun is directly in the frame, there are NO ghosts whatsoever. Gotta love that old classic Nikkon glass! This image was eventually used in a travel brochure for our beach. [ATTACH=CONFIG]27355._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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