L0n3Gr3yW0lf
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- Location
- Somerset, UK
- Name
- Ovi
I have mentioned this in a few places and a few times, in 2025 I plan to spend quite a bit of time meeting new doggies and making new fluffy friends. If the doggies are happy with me as in I am not causing them stress and anxiety and I can approach them safely and slowly, I will try to make an up-close portrait with a fisheye with emphasis on their noses and eyes. If the doggies are very friendly and welcoming I might try to boop (gently) their nose for the picture as well.
The purpose of the project is to help me with social anxiety and to (at the end) print a limited quantity zine (around 100-200) and offer it to purchase locally (I don't have the infrastructure to sell them online at reasonable shipping cost) and use all the money to donate for a local dog shelter/rehoming (if I can get the zine cost low enough to afford it) OR the proceeds to the same purpose.
The first image hasn't been a resounding success but it's a start and I will get better at it.
She's a good friend of ours (mine and Little Legs) and she can be a bit shy but she's an absolute sweetheart. The Pentax 03 Fisheye is quite the opposite of that 😛 ... The focus ring is very smooth and easy to turn, too easy and it goes so fast through the focus range that it is very easy to miss your focus. The lens does not have a focus distance scale just 5 lines and 4 dots in between the lines, the distance it has written on the lens is Near and Far, very helpful. And the lens has a fixed aperture so no smaller than f 5.6 and even at minimum focus distance that is not "infinite" Depth of Field.
The equipment I am using now is:
*Olympus OM-1 or Panasonic G2 with TTArtisan 7.5mm f 2 Pro Fisheye
*Pentax Q with Pentax 03 16mm f 5.6 Fisheye
What I plan to add in the future:
*Samsung NX500 with Samsung 10mm f 3.5 Fisheye Pancake
The purpose of the project is to help me with social anxiety and to (at the end) print a limited quantity zine (around 100-200) and offer it to purchase locally (I don't have the infrastructure to sell them online at reasonable shipping cost) and use all the money to donate for a local dog shelter/rehoming (if I can get the zine cost low enough to afford it) OR the proceeds to the same purpose.
The first image hasn't been a resounding success but it's a start and I will get better at it.
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She's a good friend of ours (mine and Little Legs) and she can be a bit shy but she's an absolute sweetheart. The Pentax 03 Fisheye is quite the opposite of that 😛 ... The focus ring is very smooth and easy to turn, too easy and it goes so fast through the focus range that it is very easy to miss your focus. The lens does not have a focus distance scale just 5 lines and 4 dots in between the lines, the distance it has written on the lens is Near and Far, very helpful. And the lens has a fixed aperture so no smaller than f 5.6 and even at minimum focus distance that is not "infinite" Depth of Field.
The equipment I am using now is:
*Olympus OM-1 or Panasonic G2 with TTArtisan 7.5mm f 2 Pro Fisheye
*Pentax Q with Pentax 03 16mm f 5.6 Fisheye
What I plan to add in the future:
*Samsung NX500 with Samsung 10mm f 3.5 Fisheye Pancake
