Brian Patterson
New member
Spent several hours trapsing about in downtown Knoxville this afternoon getting intimate with my Nikkor 10.5/2.8 fisheye. Man, I'm in love!
But she's a different piece of glass than the other optics I've fallen for - doesn't take images of just anything unless it looks right from a fisheye perspective. "Look for the curves", she whispered. "Straight line are a bore", she murmured. I listened. She kept talking... and 174 images later I knew she was right.
It was a new discipline for me as many architectural and other superwide planoparallel rules-of-thumb don't always apply here. Geometric manipulation is a big part of seeing an image well with a fisheye and that's the fun part - looking for images where you haven't always looked before. How seductive!
A Fisheye View of Knoxville
But she's a different piece of glass than the other optics I've fallen for - doesn't take images of just anything unless it looks right from a fisheye perspective. "Look for the curves", she whispered. "Straight line are a bore", she murmured. I listened. She kept talking... and 174 images later I knew she was right.
It was a new discipline for me as many architectural and other superwide planoparallel rules-of-thumb don't always apply here. Geometric manipulation is a big part of seeing an image well with a fisheye and that's the fun part - looking for images where you haven't always looked before. How seductive!
A Fisheye View of Knoxville
