4/24/2023 0 Comments Fisheye portraitI recently purchased the new Rokinon 8mm f/2.8 Fisheye II lens that was just released for mirrorless cameras. I’ve owned the earlier version of this lens and I have used other fisheye lenses in the past but never thought seriously (until now) about the wide distorted photos that they made. The fisheye lens is typically pigeonholed into a few specialty uses: things like action sports photography (made especially popular by the GoPro), underwater photography, and the occasional distorted portrait. Fisheye lenses often scream “Distortion!” and as a result, the fisheye is considered a specialty lens by most photographers. It is a lens that rarely sees itself mounted to your camera, either staying in your bag or sitting on the shelf and collecting dust. Fisheye lenses are rarely used for landscapes because of their tendency to curve the horizon if not perfectly centered, thus making the distortion the most attention grabbing part of the photograph. As a result, it’s a lot easier to just take silly portraits with one than try to make any “serious” photos. The more common use for the fisheye lens: the silly portrait. I would like to convince you that a fisheye is not just a specialty lens for rare occasions or funky portraits, it’s a serious photographic tool that deserves a place alongside your other, certainly more often used, “more serious” rectilinear camera lenses.Īccording to Wikipedia, the fisheye lens had its “first practical use was in the 1920s for use in meteorology to study cloud formation giving them the name ‘whole-sky lenses’.” As a result, they’re excellent for photographing the night sky and that’s why they interest us at Lonely Speck. ![]() The large field of view that they offer allow us to not only see a huge amount of the night sky but also let us use relatively long exposures, up to 60 seconds without significant star trailing. Now if only that darn horizon wasn’t so curved and fishy. Fishy curved horizons can be a distracting element of an otherwise great photo. In the example above, I think that the fishiness detracts from the content of the photo. The curved horizon, and the curved roadway are distracting. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.The easiest way to make a fisheye lens more serious and more appropriate for applications like landscape photography (or landscape astrophotography) is to “defish” the image. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Followups left as a reply to this comment will not count for approval. Keep in mind that simply choosing to comment just on the images you like defeats the purpose of the subreddit.ĭo not reply directly to this message. If you have time, please stop by the new queue as well and leave critique for images that may not be as popular or have not received enough attention. Please see the following links for our subreddit rules and some guidelines on leaving a good critique. Simply reply to their comment with '!CritiquePoint'. ![]() ![]() If someone gives helpful feedback or makes an informative comment, recognize their contribution by giving them a Critique Point. While likes/upvotes and compliments are nice, they do not further the goal of helping people improve their photography. We hope to avoid becoming yet another place on the internet just to get likes/upvotes and compliments. ![]() Our goal is to make this subreddit a place people can receive genuine, in depth, and helpful critique on their images. Friendly reminder that this is r/photocritique and all top level comments should attempt to critique the image.
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