Taken using a 4.5mm circular fisheye that Hazel hired for me ... v cool. The lens produces a circular image, it's not done in editing afterwards.
I predict a low 5's at most as I expect a lot of people to hate it ... I think it's very cool!
[Aug. 4th, 2009 07:25:24 AM]
Wow, started at 6.3 and has crept up to 6.5 after 108 votes. I didn't expect so many people to like this :)
This was handheld for 3 exposures 2 stops apart. The 3 raw shots were combined in photomatix, I played with the sliders a bit till I liked it!! Saved and then curves and levels in CS3. Cropped to make the image square, added a black layer for the border and selected a circle a few pixels in to give the outer edge a nice finish, resized to 700 (had to use more compression than normal to get under 200kb!), noise ninja and save
Statistics
Place: 21 out of 419 Avg (all users): 6.5987 Avg (commenters): 7.4444 Avg (participants): 6.5739 Avg (non-participants): 6.6757 Views since voting: 2084 Views during voting: 264 Votes: 152 Comments: 15 Favorites: 8 (view)
What an amazing image! That lens is totally cool, and the scene you have chosen to employ it on, certainly beautiful in its own right, becomes spectacular. The beautiful jewel-like colours are just perfect in this context.
First Impression: You need to go to extremes to get a WOW! shot on dpc these days and gladly this is one of those shots - WOW! The colours really pop and it was fun viewing the image and knowing the location and what it actually looks like.
Composition: Once you get into the image the composition is excellent and I like the placement of the main roof window with the two rows of shops leading away.
Subject: This is a great place for shooting but have never seen it look like this before, I think I'll fall over next time I'm there lol.
Technical: 3 images 2 stops apart? I can see that being simple on a tripod but how did you do it hand held? with a 'normal' image you can crop to get everything lined up but would image it would be almost impossible with a lens that produses a circular image (or did the camera expose the same single shot 3 times.
Final thoughts: I thinking renting this lens would be the way to go as whilst I'd use it lots for a while I imagine it would soon just sit in my bag. A great shot and a decent placement in a FS with (as you say) an image that the average dpc'er might not approve of. You are getting quite a collection of 'unusual' images in your portfolio now, keep them coming!
Have been sat here a couple of minutes thinking I know this place but couldn't remember what it was called then scrolled down to find out its in the title lol. Nice one!
Very interesting perspective. I'll be interested to see the details regarding the exposure. The person sitting and the fellow standing show no motion blur, yet I initially got the sense of a long exposure from the various points of light.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
