- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
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I read through this thread and a few others and decided to try Hugin for defishing this shot I took awhile back at the Old Folsom Powerhouse main switchboard:
Quick and dirty defish (since I don't really know what I'm doing anyway):
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Quick and dirty defish (since I don't really know what I'm doing anyway):
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I'd wanted a fisheye lens since I was 15 years old, reading the Spiratone ads in the back of magazines. A couple summers ago I bid $200 on a used Sigma 4.5mm 180 deg. circular fisheye lens. And I won. Oops.
It was crazy hard to use. I had to pay attention to my feet and belly. Had to develop a fisheye stance. The whole notion of crazy lines is what you'd expect, but there's so much real estate to keep track of. And no cropping available.
I think I took it out 3 times before I decided that it wouldn't take long to get a reputation as the 'fisheye guy.' I couldn't have that, so I sold it. But that lens taught me a lot about ultrawide photography. I still find 16mm hard to wrangle, but I'm better at it for having fought with the 4.5.
Barrel Distortion
The day the lens came in the mail, I chucked it on a body and took it out in the backyard to look through it. I shot this ladder straight on leaned against the house in a corner with a chimeny. At the time, just something to look at. When I got it in post, I found a carpenter's square for a 180 deg. circular fisheye. Shows what all the lines do. Showed me what to expect in the field.
It was crazy hard to use. I had to pay attention to my feet and belly. Had to develop a fisheye stance. The whole notion of crazy lines is what you'd expect, but there's so much real estate to keep track of. And no cropping available.
I think I took it out 3 times before I decided that it wouldn't take long to get a reputation as the 'fisheye guy.' I couldn't have that, so I sold it. But that lens taught me a lot about ultrawide photography. I still find 16mm hard to wrangle, but I'm better at it for having fought with the 4.5.
Barrel Distortion
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The day the lens came in the mail, I chucked it on a body and took it out in the backyard to look through it. I shot this ladder straight on leaned against the house in a corner with a chimeny. At the time, just something to look at. When I got it in post, I found a carpenter's square for a 180 deg. circular fisheye. Shows what all the lines do. Showed me what to expect in the field.
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- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
Cool shots.
My favorite is the middle one - the one of the ladder. Yep, it's extreme - but somehow the crazy fisheye angles seem to really show off the ladder in... well, in a new a different way.
Makes me want to get out my only current fisheye, the inexpensive fixed f/8 plastic pancake Olympus. Not quite as extreme as your 4.5mm... but fun nonetheless.
Thanks for posting these!
Lastblackdog
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- Location
- Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland
- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
