Photo Sharing: Ultra Wide Angle

[zackiedawg]

I took a 2 week cruise through Canada and New England in October, and the 10-24mm ultrawide got some use in Quebec for some night and day scenics and architecture shots, and for the ship interior which always works well with ultrawides:

On the ship:

All were with my new Sony A580 camera, which got its trial by fire on this trip, having just bought it a week before. It mates well with the Tamron 10-24mm lens.

 

[DoleWhipDVC]

I love taking pictures of the mission space signage. I'm not sure why, guess it might be the lines it offers.

And speaking of lines, here's a classic capture that I think everybody has done! I figured I would give it a shot as well.

 

[rdunative]

 

[JimbobJimbo]

 

[jeepwreck]

So many amazing photos

keep them coming

 

[theduck619]

Great shots everyone!

 

[JimbobJimbo]

 

[mrcricket]

The Lancaster Theatre.

 

[mrcricket]

Do you have some preferred tonemapping settings for CS5 Merge to HDR? I had some I got out of a Scott Kelby article in Outdoor Photographer but I lost them when the hard drive in my old computer crashed. I couldn't find the article I got them from and internet searches have proved fruitless.

I don't really have preferred settings in CS5's HDR. Usually I just make a non-tonemapped file and then bring that into Photomatix Pro. Inside Photomatix I keep the setting fairly normal. I do crank up the micro contrast a bunch, but tend to keep the light smoothing more to the normal range than the psychedelic
end of the slider. A lot of the heavy lifting of finishing off the image is done in Lightroom, which you could do in camera raw in photoshop—they are essentially the same. Good luck. Remember, settings are just starting points. Each image is different and you should develop according to what's right for that image.

 

[mrcricket]

The Red Bench.

 

[DoleWhipDVC]

The Red Bench.

Very cool capture. I like the way the planter and its contents "pop" with great color and then your eye gets pulled right down the bench until the DOF fades out. Nice work

 

[rdunative]

 

[millys]

Beach Reflections

Milly

 

[rdunative]

 

[michelleiada]

Some AMAZING pics in this thread. WOW!

 

[rdunative]

 

[wbeem]

This Way to Infinity…and Beyond by wbeem, on Flickr

 

[Goofdad]

one of the best threads I've ever found on the internet - Great Work to all of you photographers.

OKOKOK - now I have to ask the question:
Why buy/use one of these wide angle lenses when I can shoot panos and stitch them together in Photoshop?

(/ducks thrown shoe)

thanks!

 

[traylorc]

This Way to Infinity…and Beyond by wbeem, on Flickr

Great shot!

 

[wbeem]

one of the best threads I've ever found on the internet - Great Work to all of you photographers.

OKOKOK - now I have to ask the question:
Why buy/use one of these wide angle lenses when I can shoot panos and stitch them together in Photoshop?

(/ducks thrown shoe)

thanks!

The answer is the same as every other photography-related question - it depends.

For instance, take the shot I just posted above of the VAB. I had only a few minutes to get inside, get my shot and was then forced to move along. In this case, I knew I needed an ultra-wide lens for the sake of speed.

Sometimes, you actually want the lens distortion of these lenses. A Fisheye is an extreme example. You can use it to enlarge part of your subject, put a curve on the horizon, etc. I was just doing that this weekend with some of the Tiki Idols at the Polynesian.

On top of that, they're just fun.