Fish Eye or Not: I have posted pics so you can see what I want to achieve my camera is a Canon 50d. The photos are of the Madison Wi state capital rooms. I want to show a 3 dimensional...

overthemoon Loc: Wisconsin

I have posted pics so you can see what I want to achieve my camera is a Canon 50d. The photos are of the Madison Wi state capital rooms. I want to show a 3 dimensional affect. Because there is art work on the walls front and ceiling in most of the rooms. I used my sigma 10 20 lens to try to achieve this. In one of the rooms I got the fire place the ceiling and the outer wall. It looks like your going up hill. I like the photo I want to know how I can get this type of affect without the slant. I don't have photoshop I am starting to learn. Question. Do I need a fish eye or can I do this with my sigma 10 20 I know I can't have it all but with a fish eye it gives a rounded effect and I still want edges. I do have picnic that can straighten photos some what but not in this one. I want to go back to try again and next time I am going to make sure the curtain is closed.

hmm maybe I am asking a lot(:

my goal was to get the fireplace wall and ceiling. I want to loose the slant. Next time I am closing the curtain.

wow this is a huge photo of the fireplace

I didn't think the photos would be so big. but in this one the ceiling is cropped out so you can't see the stain glass. I picked only a 1/4 of the room

LarryD Loc: Mojave Desert

A fish-eye lens will always give a distorted image.. that's the point.. It's not what you want..

The tilt-shift lens was developed for architectural photography to change the perspective and straighten (parallel) the lines in your photo..

overthemoon Loc: Wisconsin

LarryD wrote:

A fish-eye lens will always give a distorted image.. that's the point.. It's not what you want..

The tilt-shift lens was developed for architectural photography to change the perspective and straighten (parallel) the lines in your photo..

Thanks I will look that up

ephraim Imperio

overthemoon wrote:

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You are going to need this software, fish-eye-hemi, to convert fish-eye photos to rectilinear photos.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/fisheye-hemi.htm

nikondaddy Loc: Mayfield,Kentucky

You c an,t do anything until you learn to use a wideangle to the effect you realy want and a slant with 10mm is the curve of the lense and a fish eye would be worse. You take good photos so just do it and close that window curtain and do it again and again.

DeanerNiker Loc: Lakewood, Colorado

ephraim Imperio wrote:

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Here is a sample of what this software does to a fish-eye shot.

Fish-eye

Fish-eye hemi

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

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You are going to need this software, fish-eye-hemi, to convert fish-eye photos to rectilinear photos.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/fisheye-hemi.htm

Great software. Makes me want to go out and buy a fisheye.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

jerryc41 wrote:

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You are going to need this software, fish-eye-hemi, to convert fish-eye photos to rectilinear photos.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/fisheye-hemi.htm

Great software. Makes me want to go out and buy a fisheye.

Just out of curiosity, I looked for fisheyes on ebay - $3,000 and up, no surprise there. But then I came across these lenses - available for any DSLR. It seems to be an actual lens, rather than an add-on, but why so cheap?

Do any of you have any experience with these?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rokinon-8mm-Fisheye-Lens-Nikon-Digital-SLR-Camera-Kit-NEW-USA-/140674698574?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item20c0dd8d4e

DeanerNiker Loc: Lakewood, Colorado

jerryc41 wrote:

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I'm not familiar with that lens. I have a Nikon DX AF Fisheye NIKKOR 10.5mm 1:2.8 G ED. I love it and paid around $680 for it.

shopnascar Loc: San Luis Obispo, CA

I just bought one of these lenses for my Lumix 4/3 sensor. There are no tricks, just a very simple and straightforward design they are adapting to a multitude of mounts. It is a manual lens which requires a certain amount of photographic proficiency, and some knowledge of what your camera does with an unlinked lens. But overall, it appears to be a good quality lens. Just don't expect the same quality as the big dollar fisheye.

jerryc41 wrote:

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ephraim Imperio

jerryc41 wrote:

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I don't know why the rokinon fish-eye is cheap. But users seem to love this lens.
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=safari&rls=en&q=Reviews+of+fisheye+rokinon+lens&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=11125920107983121919&os=reviews

shopnascar Loc: San Luis Obispo, CA

I just bought one of these lenses for my Lumix 4/3 sensor. There are no tricks, just a very simple and straightforward design they are adapting to a multitude of mounts. It is a manual lens which requires a certain amount of photographic proficiency, and some knowledge of what your camera does with an unlinked lens. But overall, it appears to be a good quality lens. Just don't expect the same quality as the big dollar fisheye.

jerryc41 wrote:

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overthemoon Loc: Wisconsin

DeanerNiker wrote:

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Oh wow that is cool I am going to look at the software. Thanks for your comments.

overthemoon Loc: Wisconsin

nikondaddy wrote:

You c an,t do anything until you learn to use a wideangle to the effect you realy want and a slant with 10mm is the curve of the lense and a fish eye would be worse. You take good photos so just do it and close that window curtain and do it again and again.

Thanks I am going to try this again to see if one I can close that curtain and then 2nd get rid of some of the slant

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

DeanerNiker wrote:

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I have the same and my comment is the same. Editing programs such as Photoshop, Paintshop, Capture NX have fish-eye distortion correction features built in