This week I have choosen to work with 'fish eye' photography, I will be using the Canon 350D and shooting around Falmouth & Truro. I will incorproate numerous themes, including landscapes and people, and use little post production as i feel fish eye adds interest to the image. A fish eye lens, is a wide angle lens allowing a photographer to photograph a larger area. Click the link to see further information. Fish Eye Lens
The above image was taken at Plaza skate park in Truro, this is my first time using a Fish Eye along with the Canon 350D. I used a quick shutter speed ( 1/3200 ) to minimise motion blur and preserve sharpness. If i could improve this image, i would have been in a 2-3 metre distance of the subject, slightly below them, empathsising there height, and allowing them to take up more of the image.
This image was taken from the back on the playing field at my local park, it looks over a road and primary school, however you cannot see this due to the silhoutte effect. I like how the basketball net creates a height difference along the horizon, and contrasts to the repeatitive shape the trees make. The sun creates the only light source for this image, and its light spreads across the sky creating a colourful haze.
I find this image much different to the work i have done previous. I shot this through the back board of a basket ball hoop, I like how there is a deep depth of field, and its easy to define distance, something whic is often lost with Fisheye photography. The lines divide up the image, without disorting it, creating many areas for the eye to focus on.
For the next image, I took influence from photographer Keegan Gibbs, he is Keegan Gibbs is a photographer that risks his freedom to document and photograph some of the best Graffiti artists America has to offer. Although he hasnt used a fisheye like myself, he captures the 'atmosphere' and tense mood of the artists whilst they are doing there work. My image was taken on a shelter close to my house, work like this is common in my neighbourhood and I feel works well with the 'urban' idea thats asociated with the fisheye lens.
This picture is slightly different to the 'urban' theme seen in the others, I wanted to see how large the berrys became when taken on the fish eye. For this shot I used a flash, this gave an interesting lighting effect but kept all of the subject in focus and exposed. I like the contrast created with the bright red of the berries compared to the juicy green of the leaves. There are interesting textures created, the berries are shiney and appear 'plastic' whilst the leaves and bush in the background create many different shapes and lines. For this shot I used a shallow depth of field
The image above is much like those done by Tony Howell , a British landscape photographer, who displays many images of his 'plant' photography on his website. He often uses a shallpw depth of field to empathise the beauty and details of plants and flower's. For his work he uses large fomat digital cameras, whereas I shot mine on a Canon 350D
