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extreme Photography: Photographing the Fisheye

Nikon D70, Nikkor 10.5mm fisheye lens, f/2.8 - Campo dei Fiori, Varese

The Fisheye, Fish Eye literally, is an ultra wide-angle lens with very small focal length (16mm for the standard 24x36 and its equivalent to 10.5mm in digital form), from a diagonal angle of 180 ° and a very small distance of focus, usually a few inches from the front lens.

The photographs obtained with this type of lens are characterized by an exaggerated convex distortion on the edges of the frame, this thing that makes it difficult to use, but if you have some 'imagination and creativity can make a lot of shots really unusual and appealing.

The merits of this view are a good brightness and an exceptional depth of field, a quality that allows you to have everything in focus, or nearly so, even at maximum aperture, f/2.8 usually the as open standards, and to be able to shoot handheld with a very long time. I personally have managed to get to the second half with excellent results.

A little 'history: the fisheye were originally developed for meteorology and for control of the welds inside the pipe, but which can have a view that uses two or three steps you can take all that surrounds you 360 °?

The use of this extraordinary goal is manifold, for example photographs of interiors in confined spaces, or panoramic photographs to large-scale, in which case you need to keep the camera is level, otherwise the deformation of horizon.

The small distance Minimum Focus can also help a lot closer to the subject and make it extreme portraits in tight spaces, such as a driver inside his vehicle.

Another use is the astro photography, with a long exposure to the night sky you can get images of a large portion of the sky for the recording not only time but a long period of time revealed the trails of the stars in the sky due to Earth's rotation, or poses a bit 'smaller you can get pictures of the night sky with stars point perfectly.

Nikon D70, Nikkor 10.5mm fisheye lens, f/2.8 - The sky above Varese

And if we aim our Fisheye them down? The result is nothing short of amazing: the horizon is curved really giving the impression of seeing our planet from afar.

The only limit to this point is pushing our creativity ...

Nikon D70, lens Fisheye Nikkor 10.5mm, f/2.8 - Lake Varese