*Wed C&C (No Theme) Thread, Ed. 250 February/06/2013*

Roel,

Here are views of the art, "Waking from His Dream" by Leo Saul Berk, seen in a recent exhibit in the Frye Art Museum, Seattle.  Both were taken with the same lens set-up; I don't have a view with a different lens, and the exhibit has ended.

The fisheye converter used with 16mm lens on NEX-5N yields a 180-degree angle of view and is equivalent to a 15mm lens on a FF camera, according to mfr's literature.

When I took the picture, I'd recently read that fisheye distortion increases with distance from the center.  So, I carefully tried to line up with the center of the "bowl."  Sure enough, it doesn't look at all distorted compared to the floor and walls.  Although the perimeter of the bowl must have some distortion, because the object is circular I don't know how any distortion could be noticeable.

I like to imagine that intrinsic artistic qualities of the piece might be so powerful that a force field is created which warps the immediate environment.

The second picture is uncropped.



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Zin