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 injektilo
     
Location: The Northeast
Gender: Male
Ride or Die
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< on 1/1/2010 1:56 PM >
|  | | | I just grabbed the Olympus 7-14 (14-28 35mm}.
Clearly I need to spend more time getting to know this lens.
Let me know what you think and maybe offer some advice for using such a wide lens effectively. Thanks
If I was really created in God’s image then when God was a boy he wanted to grow up to be a man, a good man, and when God was a man, a good man, he started telling the truth in order to get honest responses. |
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rob.i.am
   
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
| | | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 1 on 1/1/2010 2:18 PM >
| | | | An ultrawide will change your life and you'll wonder how you ever shot without one.
There are really good. Be sure to watch for distortion (I think there's some in #6 and maybe in #3).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/ |
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TorontoCub
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
Yea, it's me Boys and Girls
| | | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 2 on 1/1/2010 2:25 PM >
| | | | wow sweet! love em all!
The fatbastard is exploring. somewere... |
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AggiePhil
Location: College Station, TX
Gender: Male
Texas Aggie
| | | | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 3 on 1/1/2010 3:51 PM >
| | | | What are you supposed to do about any distortion that you may encounter? I think the shots look great myself but I could see where distortion could become a problem.
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rob.i.am
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
| | | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 4 on 1/1/2010 4:03 PM >
| | | | Posted by AggiePhil
What are you supposed to do about any distortion that you may encounter? I think the shots look great myself but I could see where distortion could become a problem.
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Disclaimer: I'm no expert
You can do some correction for it in Photoshop (filter, distort, lens correction). And there's software designed explicitly for distortion correction, PTLens for example (which a friend pointed me to but which I haven't used much yet).
Or you can simply live with it or celebrate it as part of what you were trying to achieve with the photo.
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injektilo
Location: The Northeast
Gender: Male
Ride or Die
| | | | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 5 on 1/1/2010 6:53 PM >
| | | | 6 was kinda bothering me so I redid it.
I think I have to get used to cropping more than I am use to.
If I was really created in God’s image then when God was a boy he wanted to grow up to be a man, a good man, and when God was a man, a good man, he started telling the truth in order to get honest responses. |
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Protios
Location: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia
Gender: Male
To get where you're going, Remember where you've been
| | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 6 on 1/1/2010 7:03 PM >
| | | | You shoot with an Olympus? What model? I thought I was the only one haha
To get where you're going
Remember where you've been |
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Jeff!
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 7 on 1/2/2010 9:55 PM >
| | | | holy distortion
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puravida9539
Location: Dallas Area
Gender: Male
Just give me a flashlight
| | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 8 on 1/3/2010 1:26 AM >
| | | | Number 4 is awesome!
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aaronni
Location: South Puget Sound
| | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 9 on 1/3/2010 3:15 AM >
| | | | Posted by injektilo
6 was kinda bothering me so I redid it.
I think I have to get used to cropping more than I am use to.
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If you find the extremely distorted edges bad and think you're going to crop a lot I'd highly recommend you consider trying out the 9-18mm for your Olympus. I've had one over a year and it's amazing. It's only fault is there's some barrel distortion but it's only at the extreme edge of the photo and easily solved by changing composition. It's also one third the weight & price of the 7-14mm.
never know until you go |
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Steed
 
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 10 on 1/8/2010 3:30 AM >
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Good call.
Really good colours in some of these, especially that one.
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bandito
Location: Northern NJ
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 11 on 1/8/2010 6:11 PM >
| | | | Nice shots and I'm a fan of the more distorted look.
I think the benefit of the wide-angle is that it puts you in the picture.
Just shooting a scene to get more image doesn't really do it.
I think the cropped hook shot is great and maybe if you had shot closer to the chair and it took more space in the foreground of the pic it could have been stronger...
Overall, sweet pics
BTW-weren't those little cubby doors green??
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hydrotherapy
Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 12 on 1/14/2010 8:55 PM >
| | | | Photoshop has a decent distortion correction tool but honestly- it'll never really allow a piece to be printable at a large size and you can only correct so much.
Key for shooting architecture on a wide lens? Take a LOT of time setting up your compositions. Get your lines straight. Take the extra couple of seconds to bring your tripod up higher so you aren't tipping your camera up instead. Get a dual or triple way bubble level (not perfect if shooting slightly crooked collapsing architecture, but cheaper than an architectural focusing screen and good to learn from.) Use Photoshop to get rid of your barrel distortion, and try to nail your horizontal and vertical lines in-camera so you don't have to play with those silly tools.
Or invest in a tilt-shift lens and bask in its expensive glory.
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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Maglyte
| | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 13 on 1/15/2010 12:31 AM >
| | | | shooting micro 4/3rds? looks like a great lens!!
mmmm. mandias....... |
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bandito
Location: Northern NJ
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 14 on 1/15/2010 12:46 PM >
| | | | Posted by hydrotherapy
Get a dual or triple way bubble level (not perfect if shooting slightly crooked collapsing architecture, but cheaper than an architectural focusing screen and good to learn from.)
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Levels are dirt cheap too...
http://cgi.ebay.co...ash=item56387cc18c
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hydrotherapy
Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 15 on 1/15/2010 5:20 PM >
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And damn useful.
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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amy atomic
Location: Baltimore
Gender: Female
top banana of the baltimore bunch.
| | | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 16 on 1/15/2010 7:13 PM >
| | | | The last shot is fucking fantastic.
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Maglyte
| | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 17 on 1/16/2010 1:53 AM >
| | | | Posted by hydrotherapy
And damn useful.
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agreed and saves a lot of time in PS
mmmm. mandias....... |
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Jeff!
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 18 on 1/17/2010 11:25 PM >
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Posted by hydrotherapy
And damn useful.
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i disagree.
a grid focus screen is a MUCH better investment.
you can see the grid while composing which is a million times easier. and just because your camera is level doesn't mean that your photo is, abandoned places specifically are crooking and warped all the time.
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hydrotherapy
Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: My first Ultra Wide shots
<Reply # 19 on 1/18/2010 12:21 AM >
| | | | Posted by Jeff!
i disagree.
a grid focus screen is a MUCH better investment.
you can see the grid while composing which is a million times easier. and just because your camera is level doesn't mean that your photo is, abandoned places specifically are crooking and warped all the time.
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Dear Jeff!,
I said its failures included when shooting collapsing architecture, and suggested a bubble level was a first step toward a focusing screen, and it's certainly better than nothing and already helps develop an eye towards architectural accuracy.
Don't you have mats to go back to destroying?
Hearts,
hydro
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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