Photo Sharing: Ultra Wide Angle

[Scottwdw]

Can't wait.....

My Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 arrives tomorrow!!!! I'll finally be able to post a pic to this thread!

Hoping to get a really nice Hawaiian sunset at Aulani in a week.

Congrats on the lens and your trip to Aulani! This is a good time to re-post this popular article Justin wrote for my blog on using a wide angle lens...

10 Tips on Using a Wide Angle Lens

 

[Todd_H]

^^click the image to view larger on flickr

 

[Kiann3]

Thanks for posting the 10 top tips. We just bought a Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 Nikon for a D90. I am so excited to use it and this article is very helpful. Test run will be the end of this month at Disneyland then WDW Nov 2.

I can only hope to get such lovely shots.

How do you get shots with no people in them? Do they mind if you are taking shots after closing?

Personally I would pay if they had a time people could go in and take shots with no one in the park. Hmm who do I submit that idea to?

 

[Kiann3]

opps forgot to hit subscribe button

 

[Marlton Mom]

Can't wait.....

My Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 arrives tomorrow!!!! I'll finally be able to post a pic to this thread!

Hoping to get a really nice Hawaiian sunset at Aulani in a week.

AWESOME!!! You are going to love that Tokina!

It will be interesting to see how you are 'compelled' to use it, and by that I mean I am compelled to use it as a landscape lens where I get everything in nice and neat and ...... sometimes kinda boring.
Like this.


Now playing... a Moving Picture entitled... by Marlton Mom, on Flickr

I feel like I need to push myself out of my comfort zone with using this lens as a 'landscape' lens and work more towards using it's distortion ability in creative ways. I want that distortion in my photograph to make a statement, like in this shot of the Ferris Wheel:


OC Rides Aug 2011 naked Ferris wheel by Marlton Mom, on Flickr

Here I was hoping to emphasize heights. The Tokina really did a much better job with accomplishing this than my brain was anticipating.


It's funny because I go out with the intent of shooting for the creative distortion capabilities and I have to resist spending all my time on the 'landscape' type of shots.

I think I am having trouble seeing/thinking the distorted shot in my head so I think I am missing a lot of opportunities. One of the things that I am really working on with the Tokina is to "See through the lens". I've noticed that my brain is still trying to bring order to what I see visually....... and the Tokina is capturing much more distortion than I am anticipating being able to see with my eyes. So I gotta work with this lens and bring my brain and the Tokina, with it's distortion capability, in harmony with my creative objectives.

So this Tokina is an bipolar mistress. I wonder if you are going to find that you have a tendency to shoot one way, 'landscape' or 'distortion'.

With all this in mind I would urge you to get CLOSE, ridiculously CLOSE if you are going for the distortion, Also go down LOW and shoot UP (or vice versa) and take advantage of the curvie-ness. I have live view on my Nikon D90 and it's a godsend for assisting in composition when you are twisting and turning and getting down low and using the eye piece is out of the question unless you are heavily involved with yoga.

Scott's link to Justin Miller's tips is/are essential for using this lens so kudos to those guys for laying it out in an easily accessible and easily understood format.

10 Tips on Using a Wide Angle Lens

Best of luck and GO CRAZY with using this lens. You are going to have a blast!

Marlton Mom

 

[ChiSoxKeith]

AWESOME!!! You are going to love that Tokina!

It will be interesting to see how you are 'compelled' to use it, and by that I mean I am compelled to use it as a landscape lens where I get everything in nice and neat and ...... sometimes kinda boring.
Like this.


Now playing... a Moving Picture entitled... by Marlton Mom, on Flickr

I feel like I need to push myself out of my comfort zone with using this lens as a 'landscape' lens and work more towards using it's distortion ability in creative ways. I want that distortion in my photograph to make a statement, like in this shot of the Ferris Wheel:


OC Rides Aug 2011 naked Ferris wheel by Marlton Mom, on Flickr

Here I was hoping to emphasize heights. The Tokina really did a much better job with accomplishing this than my brain was anticipating.


It's funny because I go out with the intent of shooting for the creative distortion capabilities and I have to resist spending all my time on the 'landscape' type of shots.

I think I am having trouble seeing/thinking the distorted shot in my head so I think I am missing a lot of opportunities. One of the things that I am really working on with the Tokina is to "See through the lens". I've noticed that my brain is still trying to bring order to what I see visually....... and the Tokina is capturing much more distortion than I am anticipating being able to see with my eyes. So I gotta work with this lens and bring my brain and the Tokina, with it's distortion capability, in harmony with my creative objectives.

So this Tokina is an bipolar mistress. I wonder if you are going to find that you have a tendency to shoot one way, 'landscape' or 'distortion'.

With all this in mind I would urge you to get CLOSE, ridiculously CLOSE if you are going for the distortion, Also go down LOW and shoot UP (or vice versa) and take advantage of the curvie-ness. I have live view on my Nikon D90 and it's a godsend for assisting in composition when you are twisting and turning and getting down low and using the eye piece is out of the question unless you are heavily involved with yoga.

Scott's link to Justin Miller's tips is/are essential for using this lens so kudos to those guys for laying it out in an easily accessible and easily understood format.



Best of luck and GO CRAZY with using this lens. You are going to have a blast!

Marlton Mom

Thanks for the tips! Going to be printing out Justin Miller's tips tonight. I'm planning on spending a whole day at Pearl Harbor and one of the things I really want to try out is getting some artsy shots of the big 16" guns on the Missouri and such.

 

[mrcricket]

It's been awhile since I've posted. Work has been crazy, but I did manage to get away for a weeks vacation with the DW to...well I'll let the pic give you a hint.

 

[alloyd1170]

Love that bridge shot! At first I thought wow-great shot from Soarin!

 

[mrcricket]

Love that bridge shot! At first I thought wow-great shot from Soarin!

Thanks.

 

[mrcricket]

Inside Fort Point.

 

[steph-in-ky]

^^click the image to view larger on flickr

I LOVE your photography!!!

 

[steph-in-ky]

^^click image to view large on flickr

Beautiful! If you don't mind my asking, what kind of process are you using to get your photos to have that look to them? I just love it.

 

[Daisy14'sDH]

 

[Marlton Mom]

I Love, LOVE, L O V E this!! Nice work....

~Marlton Mom

 

[PrincessInOz]

 

[kylieh]

Very noice PIO!!!

 

[mrcricket]

Any guess where this is?

 

[PrincessInOz]

Very noice PIO!!!

Thanks Kylie! How's that new lens of yours working out? And enjoy your hols....6 days and countdown!

 

[alloyd1170]

At first I thought Greenland, a Channel Island, or something like that. Then Alcatraz came to mind.

 

[kshark]

An Imposing View by Brett Kiger, on Flickr