On 2/12/2015 21:52, Bruce Walker wrote:
Ann, if we take the telephoto example, you will get pronounced
compression that your eyes would not have given the scene.
I'm not sure that is true - it is something I used to think but then
somewhere someone showed something taken with a 50 mm lens and cropped
down to what the 135 tele had captured and the crop and the tele photo
looked the same...
If I stand on a chair above two people, the taller of who I place
behind the shorter one, using a wide angle lens I can make them both
look about the same size. I used this trick during a recent shoot.
It's an optical distortion that my eye did not make but the
lens/camera did.And their heads appear much bigger than their feet
too.
You didn't see it looking through the viewfinder?
*** Not extreme distortions, but "unnatural" nonetheless. Our eyes have a
35mm equivalent focal length of around 50mm so any lens wider or
longer than that is going to distort scenes compared to what your eyes
see.***
Which is why a 50mm lens has always been my preferred one.:-) but that
is the 50 mm lens with a fixed periferal vision - one's own eyes may
have more or less.
I think it is a complicated optical matter... but at the bottom of it is
that I don't like seeing something beautiful made ugly, that's all
ann
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote:
Bruce - in all your examples, you are capturing something your eye can see
or did see without recording it with a camera...
Not the same at all as using a fisheye -
which produces an image the human eye can't see - until
after the camera has captured it..
So perhaps not the best comparison to fisheye lens photos.
I find the fish-eye distortion unpleasant - I don't mind distortion in art
in general, if the result is pleasing to look it.
Using a wide angle lens too close to someone you are photographing, or
looking at yourself in a funhouse mirror also produces an unpleasing
distortion... but I never thought "making faces" was amusing either..
but that's a digression.
ann
On 2/12/2015 20:51, Bruce Walker wrote:
Well, what's the point to shooting through raindropped glass?
WTPT standing on a chair and shooting down on a small group?
WTPT shooting a closeup of a marching band from a great distance with
a telephoto?
WTPT shooting a scene's reflection in a puddle?
WTPT trying anything different?
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
Have never grasp the point to such
mechanically produced distortion.
Jack
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On Feb 12, 2015, at 4:17 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't see any point to that kind of shot.. It's a beautiful building,
don't like seeing it distorted.
ann
On 2/12/2015 01:57, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Hi All!
Time-to-time I am experimenting with the Korean 8mm fisheye lens.
I've posted a few shots produced with that lens that I liked.
But sometimes I am not sure if the photo works or not.
Here is one of such shots:
http://42graphy.org/misc/Dresden_IR00794.jpg
I would like to hear your honest opinion, if this shot works for you or
not.
(Other comments and suggestions are also welcome.)
Thank you,
Igor
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