Photo Sharing: Ultra Wide Angle

[Frantasmic]

Cool shots of the hometown, Mr. C.

I admit though that I have a love/hate relationship with you. I love your pictures, but I hate that you prove me wrong all the time that there is nothing interesting to photograph around here.

 

[mrcricket]

Cool shots of the hometown, Mr. C.

I admit though that I have a love/hate relationship with you. I love your pictures, but I hate that you prove me wrong all the time that there is nothing interesting to photograph around here.

That's funny. I say the same thing all the time. I have to force myself to go on a walk with my camera and look at things differently. I will say, we don't live in a beautiful part of the country like some who live in CA, CO, NC, FL, etc. This part of Texas is fairly bleak, but that just means we have to look harder.

Just keep on shooting and you'll surprise yourself with what you'll find.

Thanks for the kind words.

 

[mrcricket]

Another shot of the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth. This one really shows off the Tokina 11-16mm, shot at 11mm.

 

[cpbjgc]

Walking around the Jewel Cave trails in Black Hills, SD last August. Tokina 11-16 on a Canon 50D at 11mm

 

[Daisy14'sDH]

 

[mrcricket]

Fort Worth Convention Center.

 

[cpbjgc]

Mammoth Hot Springs - 21mm

 

[BigDaddyWill]

These are all awesome! I got so pumped up looking at these I ordered a Tokina 12mm-24mm and it will get here before my new camera does!! lol.

Thanks for sharing your talents with us!

Will

 

[mrcricket]

Stay out. I don't think they wanted anyone parking here.

Tokina 11-16mm

 

[Todd_H]

^^UWA diptych of both libraries from the WDW version


^^Twin furnaces in the boiler room


^^Please click the image to take you to the flickr pages for each image

 

[Jamian]

Ice Cold Beverages:

 

[mrcricket]

Tokina 11-16mm

 

[jimim]

Received my Tokina 11-16 today. Here are a few of the first shots taken with it this evening. I think I'm going to love this lens.

This thread is crazy! Can I ask what hdr program u are using? Also are these with one image or multiple.

I have the her nik pluton for Photoshop but never used it. I might have to start.

Awesome work!

Mimi

 

[mrcricket]

This thread is crazy! Can I ask what hdr program u are using? Also are these with one image or multiple.

I have the her nik pluton for Photoshop but never used it. I might have to start.

Awesome work!

Mimi

Thanks.

These are all multi-shot HDRs—three exposures to be exact. I mainly use Photomatix for HDR. Although the new Photoshop CS5 Merge to HDR is very good to. Sometimes I use PS just to merge the files as I think it is sharper and then do the tonemapping in Photomatix, as Photomatix gives more control of tonemapping than PS.

There is a poll thread that ask what HDR program people use. Do a search and you'll find a few other answers.

 

[jimim]

Thanks.

These are all multi-shot HDRs—three exposures to be exact. I mainly use Photomatix for HDR. Although the new Photoshop CS5 Merge to HDR is very good to. Sometimes I use PS just to merge the files as I think it is sharper and then do the tonemapping in Photomatix, as Photomatix gives more control of tonemapping than PS.

There is a poll thread that ask what HDR program people use. Do a search and you'll find a few other answers.

Thanks for that. Appreciate it very much. Really love ur work BTW. Very very nice.

jim

 

[jimim]

Well I picked up my Tokina 11-16mm today. I was going to get it through B&H but it wasn't in stock so I called a mom and pop local store (yes they still exist) and holy cow they had one. It was one that was on backorder from xmas that just came in. Guess I got lucky. So tomorrow I'll start paying with it. It's real nice. Not as heavy as I thought it would be from reading about it. I'm pretty impressed with the build quality.

jim

 

[mrcricket]

Tokina 11-16mm

 

[jimim]

Tokina 11-16mm

I have a quick question. I was able to get out a little yesterday to take a few pics finally with my Tokina. I have a question about focus. I'm not use to shooting scenery so I'm a little lost. I have no idea what I should be focusing on. I was taking a few pics of some old equipment at a coal site near my house. (i live in northeastern PA coal country. we have all kinds of huge old equipment that would love the attention). An example would be say the bench above that U took. were u focusing on the arm rest closest in the pic or did u just center focus on the pic? I was confused when I was real close of an old trunk. should i be focusing on the closest part of it to me or the center of the pic? i was shooting at between f8-f11. or is it up to me on how creative i would want to be. my mind is telling me focus on the closest thing in the frame cause ur eye will be drawn here first, but i might be wrong?

also, is their a sweet f stop for sharpness on the is lens? meaning try to stick between say f8-f11 but after that sharpness starts to fall off? any advice u can give me there?

i had fun yesterday. it was a pretty overcast day but i think i got some good pics.

thanks alot,
jim

 

[Scottwdw]

Jim,

You are correct in focusing on something close. UWA's have a large depth of field even at f/2.8 but anywhere between f/4 and f/11 should work fine for the Tokina.

If I haven't pointed you already to a post written by Justin Miller, a master of the UWA lens, here it is: 10 Tips on Using a Wide Angle Lens.

 

[jimim]

Jim,

You are correct in focusing on something close. UWA's have a large depth of field even at f/2.8 but anywhere between f/4 and f/11 should work fine for the Tokina.

If I haven't pointed you already to a post written by Justin Miller, a master of the UWA lens, here it is: 10 Tips on Using a Wide Angle Lens.

thanks for that link! So is center focusing a bad thing if it just scenery and there isn't really anything up front to focus on?

jim