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AP
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 Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:28 pm Post subject: Fisheye lenses? |
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| I'm curious. Having just aquired a cheapo fisheye lens for my digital camera (~15mm length, not a proper 8mm one), how many architectural photographers actually make use of these to good effect. Are there any people in particular whose work/portfolios I could look at for inspiration? Thanks. |
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AP
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Appologies for replying to my own post, but after 500 views and no reply i wonder if i own the sole fisheye lens on the planet. Surely someone has seen a fisheye lens used convincingly before, for architecture?! |
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Kevin
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, the fisheye is used occsionally, and to great effect. But because it gives such an extreme stylization and distortion, it is generally [i]only[/] used occasionally.
Examples? I think there's a famous photo looking from the top of a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. I'll try to flip through some of our arch. photo books later on and find some other things out there. |
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AP
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, anything really would be excellent, be that image, name of photographer, etc; the books on cameras I have show fisheyes used with small objects, but in ordinary architecture books the photography seems to be fairly traditional; more about picture-postcard composition (rule of thirds etc) than anything interesting. And my uni library doesn't have anything on "architectural photography" specifically. |
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ptr
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| Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:08 am Post subject: |
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An occasional use of the fisheye lens may work well. But the distortion is great and not really appropriate if you are taking images for serious sales brochures etc.
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