Through a fish eye

mushy

I recently bought an 8mm fisheye (yes the super cheap one) and spent a few days camping,climbing and taking lots of photo's.
Please excuse the wideness on most of these as I was really loving the new toy!

No moon meant we could try some night exposures.




and a stack


Plus we are right next to a salt lake that had a very thin layer of water on top of the salt.





and there was some climbing done too


anyways I took sooooo many shots with this lens but won't bore you with anymore, unless you want to see more...:wink

comments and critique always appreciated :thumb

Stumblebum

Wow! Brilliant! You make it look easy! Any chance you can give exposure details for the first 3 night shots? Did you do some light painting?

joe-bob

Wow. the Milky Way looks great in your 2nd shot.

Cornflake

Very cool! You make me want such a lens.

JC

I'm generally not a fan of fisheye shots, but I do like a couple of these.

Don't know if you want c&c, but it looks like your color balance is off on the first three. I like number one, but I think the light painting needs some finesse- right now it looks really harsh, and too singular. IME, you need a dedicated light for foreground painting, not just a headlight or flashlight. For startrails, color is best set to daylight, so if you want to do some light painting and not have a mess of color that you need to try to correct for, a good daylight lamp helps, soft and diffuse if you want to get a broad foreground lit like you tried, or to have a single object, well separated from the rest of the foreground to paint. For foreground illumination, a moon actually helps. Start or end your startrails just as the moon is rising or setting (Depending on shooting angle).

4,5, and 6 (it's easier to comment if you number your photos, btw), are nicely done, you put the fisheye effect to good use on 4 and 6.

mushy

kolibri wrote: »

I'm generally not a fan of fisheye shots, but I do like a couple of these.

Don't know if you want c&c, but it looks like your color balance is off on the first three. I like number one, but I think the light painting needs some finesse- right now it looks really harsh, and too singular. IME, you need a dedicated light for foreground painting, not just a headlight or flashlight. For startrails, color is best set to daylight, so if you want to do some light painting and not have a mess of color that you need to try to correct for, a good daylight lamp helps, soft and diffuse if you want to get a broad foreground lit like you tried, or to have a single object, well separated from the rest of the foreground to paint. For foreground illumination, a moon actually helps. Start or end your startrails just as the moon is rising or setting (Depending on shooting angle).

4,5, and 6 (it's easier to comment if you number your photos, btw), are nicely done, you put the fisheye effect to good use on 4 and 6.

Cheers Cornflake, Stumblebum.

Always up for critique Kolibri.
The light painting was just a head torch in the final shot from the stack. I will try the stack with out and see if just the silhouette works.
I did manually adjust the white balance as they all came out quite orange/red cast.
Mainly due to a fire pit behind me in one of the photo's.
I totally agree with using the moon for light painting but that wasnt an option this time around.
Thanks for the comments and advice