Photo Sharing: Ultra Wide Angle

[mrcricket]

An old plow, on the old Nash Farm in Grapevine, Texas.

 

[singjenn]

I'm back from my first Disney trip with my Tamron 10-24 UWA! It was woefully miserably hot and humid, so I wasn't quite inspired to take as many photos as I might have in a cooler season, but the parks were not crowded at all, so that helped. I didn't use tripod at all the whole trip - that was the heat's fault, as walking around with a full bag and tripod just didn't seem very desirable...so I usually just traveled with my camera and mounted lens and one extra lens. The 10-24 was with me each day, as it was fun to play with a new perspective...and I tried it out for a variety of shots from normal landscapes or scenics to perspective-skewed wide look shots. Having the 10mm end was very convenient for those whole building shots or big scene shots that you can't back up enough to capture without a UWA.

The rectilinear type UWAs are great for getting architectural shots from very close, and as long as you hold them level, you can get basically no distortion at all on the horizontal and vertical lines. Here's a smattering of various shots of various types:

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Is that guy on the left getting ready to sneeze?? Love the colors in this shot!!

 

[Experiment_626]

Love the blue in that sky!

Scott

 

[zackiedawg]

Is that guy on the left getting ready to sneeze?? Love the colors in this shot!!

I believe he was...though I don't recall for sure. Seems like it in the shot though, doesn't it? Thanks for the comments.

 

[mrcricket]

Tokina 11-16 action in the frigid south. That's a sheet of ice behind my house. My driveway is worse and MUCH steeper. At least the sun came out for the evening.

 

[mrcricket]

Love the blue in that sky!

Scott

Thanks.

 

[zackiedawg]

From my January 20th week trip, once again had some opportunities to put the Tamron 10-24mm through some workout. Starting off with some night shooting, ultrawide style, through Epcot's World Showcase. The skies were really wild - very low cloud/fog from daytime storms as a cold front passed through - it went from 80s the day before to 40s that night - and the lights were bouncing off those low banks of cloud and fog for some real wild colors:

 

[Daisy14'sDH]

From my January 20th week trip, once again had some opportunities to put the Tamron 10-24mm through some workout. Starting off with some night shooting, ultrawide style, through Epcot's World Showcase. The skies were really wild - very low cloud/fog from daytime storms as a cold front passed through - it went from 80s the day before to 40s that night - and the lights were bouncing off those low banks of cloud and fog for some real wild colors:QUOTE]

Beautiful shots, looks like it may have been a little windy!

 

[zackiedawg]

Oh yeah...it was a LOT windy! Took quite some patience waiting for the least blowy winds to run my exposures - though the branches were blurring from moving around, for the most part it was worse just before and just after those exposures. But I wasn't going to be denied my night shots just because of some wind!! Thanks for the comments.

 

[Daisy14'sDH]

I love my 12-24mm, focus to infinity is just a few feet away, it makes this pelican seem unreal to me...

thats the Norwegian Epic blocking the skyline behid The Magic!

 

[Gianna'sPapa]

zackiedawg: From my January 20th week trip, once again had some opportunities to put the Tamron 10-24mm through some workout. Starting off with some night shooting, ultrawide style, through Epcot's World Showcase. The skies were really wild - very low cloud/fog from daytime storms as a cold front passed through - it went from 80s the day before to 40s that night - and the lights were bouncing off those low banks of cloud and fog for some real wild colors:

Great job! I just have to get an UWA lens!

 

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West side monorail by CodyWDWfan, on Flickr

 

[mrcricket]

Still frozen in DFW area. Should thaw out by the Super Bowl.

Tokina 11-16

 

[mrcricket]

A non-snow pic. Trains in Grapevine.

 

[zackiedawg]

Continuing my UWA tour around World Showcase...:

 

[Daisy14'sDH]

Awesome Zack!!! If you don't mind me asking how were they processed?

 

[zackiedawg]

Awesome Zack!!! If you don't mind me asking how were they processed?

Thank you Daisy. Much appreciated. I am a big subscriber to the idea of shot and camera setup, to avoid post processing. Not that either approach is right or wrong - just personal preference. I much more enjoy taking photos than processing them...so I don't really do any post processing. In this case, these photos were resized and slightly sharpened using USM (unsharp mask) to recover some of the lost sharpness from the resizing.

I shoot in JPEG mode rather than RAW, set the camera's internal settings for sharpness, contrast, and saturation to my liking, set the white balance when I shoot, and adjust the exposure with shutter/ISO/aperture/EV. On some occasions when I do any post processing, it would be minor noise reduction when shooting high ISO shots, or minor cloning work to clone out a dust spot. Some folks here are truly amazing post processors - their skill with the computer in manipulating photos goes way beyond mine...it's just something I don't enjoy - 10 minutes in front of my computer working on photos, and I'm already wanting to do something else!

 

[Clochette nordique]

Thank you Daisy. Much appreciated. I am a big subscriber to the idea of shot and camera setup, to avoid post processing. Not that either approach is right or wrong - just personal preference. I much more enjoy taking photos than processing them...so I don't really do any post processing. In this case, these photos were resized and slightly sharpened using USM (unsharp mask) to recover some of the lost sharpness from the resizing.

I shoot in JPEG mode rather than RAW, set the camera's internal settings for sharpness, contrast, and saturation to my liking, set the white balance when I shoot, and adjust the exposure with shutter/ISO/aperture/EV. On some occasions when I do any post processing, it would be minor noise reduction when shooting high ISO shots, or minor cloning work to clone out a dust spot. Some folks here are truly amazing post processors - their skill with the computer in manipulating photos goes way beyond mine...it's just something I don't enjoy - 10 minutes in front of my computer working on photos, and I'm already wanting to do something else!

I just bought myself a canon SX30 IS for Xmas and for our very first trip to the World. I look at all your work you post here and on other picture threads guys and I just didn't know how I would ever get to this level. I LOVE to take pictures, but I don't have any processing "guizmos". Nor do I see myself in front of the computer for hours. I PREFER TO BE OUTSIDE. Some day, when DD11 is more autonomous, I will, take shooting lessons, but right now, her special needs are too heavy for me to take these kind of lessons. So, since I am so new to a slighty better camera, this post is the most soothing for my soul it could be.

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!

Poussière de fée!

 

[mrcricket]

Tired of snow, so heres a shot from two days before the big norther. It's the reverse side of the hay bailer that I didn't know was a hay bailer two weeks ago.

 

[mrcricket]

One week ago today I woke up to this—a solid sheet of ice on our road. Now it looks like we are in for more of the same tomorrow.

Taken with the Tokina 11-16mm