Fish in the Cathedral of Worcester

[Dan Cattermole]

For those who remember last year Remembrance Day I posted an image that I was lucky to even take.
Which turned out to be this one (taken with the standard 14-42mm lens @ 14mm)

Quite chuffed with the one considering having not a lot of time to take it.

This year I returned and took it from exactly the same place, but instead with a Samyang 8mm fisheye.
Pretty chuffed with the outcome of this one too considering how warped its turned out! Very surreal.

Thanks for looking

 

[Rob MacKillop]

And the choir singing scales...

Wonderful shots, Dan.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Ha! I see what you did there Rob.

Thanks

 

[Pete Askew]

That first image is still superb Dan. And the fish-eye shot really exploits the distortion well - I like it.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Thanks Pete, I did take it portrait like last years but abviously this time with the fisheye. i set the tripod at its lowest (pretty much 2inch from ground level) the floor bieng at the bottom of the frame and camera looking like it was taking shots of the ceiling ........ But after viewing them.......... the main feature in the shot was my face!! Doh!!! Lol.

 

[Pete Askew]

Ah, I wondered where the fish reference came from!

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Haha! I was thinking more like a donkey!

 

[Hamish Gill]

Despite all the conventions that would suggest that shot shouldn't work ... It really bloody does! Makes me want to see what I can take with my fish eye inside buildings it does!!

 

[Ahmad Bhai]

Wee mental ... mos def gives the feeling of massiveness.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Despite all the conventions that would suggest that shot shouldn't work ... It really bloody does! Makes me want to see what I can take with my fish eye inside buildings it does!!

I know, it doesn't fit the 'disciplined vertical lines' at all, it certainly isn't a method that would make it into interior design mag thats for sure.
But there is something about fisheye lenses I can't quite put my finger on, except the obvious mass distortion but it wouldn't be call a fisheye if that was the case.
Kev, posted an image of a flower months back with his fisheye and I was astounded how close the focus was.
Unfortunately this has a nearest focus '3 ft' supposedly.

 

[Kev Pugh]

Fisheyes Rock, break the conventions, distort it and be creative...........just don't do Portraits with them, it's like looking into the bottom of a soup spoon :-D but then again it might make some improvement maybe I should do a MoBro FE port :-D :-D

Great stuff from the Remembrance parade again DD glad you still with the Jolly Jack Tars

 

[Craig Sperring]

Love all the set.
I really have yo invest in a Fisheye so very useful for these kind of shots!
Top marks for a really very good set indeed!
Craig

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Thanks guys

 

[Brian Moore]

Luv 'em both, Dan. Especially the fishy eye.

 

[Beth Carter]

doesn't look like the master masons knew what they were doing, the floor is all wonky and definitely not level. guess that's the plus side of living in a relatively new country, technology advanced to the point where our floors lay flat.

thanks for posting the image from last year, i hadn't seen it yet and it's really well done. this year's photo looks like the walls are alive and getting ready to step on me.