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Mar 7, 2019 11:59:27 #

hammond

Venky wrote:

Hammond,

Please let me know how you were able to take the shot of the Taj without anybody in it. Thanks in advance.

To be honest, a bit of patience and luck.

If you look closely, you can see there are actually some people on it... the trickiest part was just being patient until the crowd was relatively thin in the foreground.

I was there in the low season (mid-September), arrived just after sunset (huge crowds), and then waited until about 11:00 am when the morning crowd started to thin out when I took these shots.

However, an even better approach would have been to bring a tripod, setup a shot, take a bunch of images, say 10 seconds apart, and then overlay them to remove the people in them. It would probably be a little bit of a challenge since the colors of the Taj Mahal change throughout the day, but I think you could get enough variable crowd positioning within a few minutes to mitigate that.

I've been meaning to try this, but rarely bring a tripod with me.

Mar 7, 2019 12:45:00 #

Swifti

Thanks so much, Hammond!

Two beautiful examples, and I think I'm really going for that fisheye look, as I do want that distortion.

Mar 7, 2019 14:26:17 #

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Swifti wrote:

The photographer whom I really admire has many examples of this kind of work, but here's a link to one of his photos in this style: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-light-that-shines-our-way-home-phil-koch.html

I don't see anything in these pictures that would sugest a fish eye, they look like they have been taken with just normal wide angle lenses!

Mar 7, 2019 16:01:28 #

NCMtnMan Loc: N. Fork New River, Ashe Co., NC

The Nikon P 10-20 is very good ultra wide angle designed for the crop sensor bodies. It is fully compatible with your D500 according to Nikon's website and it's only about $300. I have one and really like it. Excellent clarity.

Mar 7, 2019 16:34:51 #

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Swifti wrote:

Hi All, another newbie question. I recently saw s... (show quote)

The Distortion Tool in Affinity Photo works quite well for this.

bwa

Mar 7, 2019 17:14:42 #

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I shoot fisheye in all 3 commonly used formats,
corner to corner, not circular.

It's tricky to avoid letting the edge curve effect
render as a distraction. But whenever you can
manage that, your ultra wide image will have a
HUGE and generally beneficial difference to it,
as compared to an image from a rectilinear ultra
wide lens. The rectilinear shrinks everything in
the center and expands everything peripheral,
which is contrary to the way we think we see
with our own vision. The fisheye has decent size
for the central subject matter and compresses
the peripheral stuff. This is a more intuitive view,
more like human vision ... but you gotta choose
compositions that don't run any distracting lines
almost parallel to the frame edges, cuz thaz the
thing that causes really distracting edge curves.
With landscape you also gotta watch the horizon
if it's visible as a line across the whole frame.

Below are fisheye shots with a bit of correction
in PP. Sometimes you need that to get a really
wide view without excessively crazy edge curve.