Fun shot (pic)

[Phil_D]

I was sitting watching the sun drop to the position for the perfect sunset (yeah, some day, maybe) and I got bored. So I slipped on the 10.5mm DX and had some fun. After a little pp, I'm quite pleased with this one. I call it 'Moonrise, Planet Earth'.



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[DeeTee]

Great shot Phil! It took me a few seconds to work out exactly what I was looking at.

That 10.5mm looks like a really fun lens. I think I know what I want for christmas...

cheers,
Damien

 

[Roger J. Buffington]

Great shot Phil! It took me a few seconds to work out exactly what
I was looking at.

That 10.5mm looks like a really fun lens. I think I know what I
want for christmas...

cheers,
Damien

OK Damien, you are smarter than me. What ARE we looking at? I assume Phis is not on the International Space Station.

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[stevo4]

Can you say Mooltipass?

;-)

stevo

 

[eye4fx]

It's the sky. See the clouds.
The extreme fisheye effect makes it seem the blue sky is earth's oceans.
Cool effect.

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Damon

 

[DeeTee]

OK Damien, you are smarter than me. What ARE we looking at? I
assume Phis is not on the International Space Station.

Not sure about the smarter bit, but Phil is very much attached to Terra Firma! Ignore the flare and rotate the picture 90deg anti-clockwise. Then you have a slightly more conventional sunset shot taken with a fisheye lens.

regards,
Damien

 

[Phil_D]

Spot on, Damien!

Actually I find the 10.5 to be a real fun lens, but quite bewildering. With most lenses I know what the shot will be before I even fit it to the camera. With the 10.5 it isn't true. I just have to look through it and move the camera around until I find an image that I like. And often there is nothing. On this occasion I just went WOW! - the way that the sky looked like the famous pictures from space of earth.

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Phil Dentten
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I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term, there would be a vast improvement in the output. The sheer ease with which we can produce an image often leads to creative disaster.
Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)