Critique Welcomed ITs the same old but with a different look...

[Kev Pugh]

As most of you will now be aware I have been posting shots from my morning walks everyday for the past ??? Today I was about to set off as normal. Snow boots on, Sallies On, Coat, Hat and gloves. Cleo - Collar and lead and of course those 'bags'. I was just about to pick up the X10 when I thought Nah. (shake of head) I'm going to take the Nik out and try something different....I didn't want anything extreme, no HDR or over processed stuff but I did want something different so........here we are..

'The Same old but with a different look'

'Out from under the Ivy Tree'

Out from under the Ivy Tree by Kev Pugh, on Flickr

'No Way Over'

No way Over by Kev Pugh, on Flickr

'Pointing the Way'

Pointing the Way by Kev Pugh, on Flickr

'Through the Dead Leaves'

Through the Dead Leaves by Kev Pugh, on Flickr

'Branching Out'

Branching Out by Kev Pugh, on Flickr

and

'Under Cover'

Under COver by Kev Pugh, on Flickr

All shot with the 10.5 f2.8 Fisheye a very underused lens..

Thanks for looking

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Lovely subdued tones, and that last one is special. Keep em coming, lad.

 

[Pete Askew]

Excellent stuff Kev, the same with a twist! I agree with Rod, keep 'em coming!

 

[Brian Moore]

I like the look of 'em too! Nice, Kev.

 

[Allan Batchelor]

Top job mucker......I want out to shoot some film but the twats sent me 120 instead of the 35mm I ordered [devil]

 

[Kev Pugh]

Cheers Al, Then you'd best go buy a med format camera, go on you know you want to



[marquee] Buy Medium Format, Buy Medium Format, Buy Medium Format, Buy Medium Format!![/marquee]

 

[Allan Batchelor]

haha whats medium format like

 

[Pete Askew]

It's a bit like small format, but bigger!

 

[David Mitchell]

Large format is where its at

 

[Lesley Jones]

I love these Kev. I saw them during my lunch break and they really brightened my day

 

[David Mitchell]

Have you tried to defish these at all? They do look awesome as they are though

 

[Tim Pindar]

Very nice, I especially like the last one...

 

[Kev Pugh]

Thanks All, no David haven't and won't for me it's all about the distortion and using it to hopefully frame the overall image and to add something else in a more artistic way, and not about using it to get more in view. I usually use this lens for Pano work then things get played with, but for this sort of stuff I like as is....

 

[David Mitchell]

To be honest when I think of a fisheye lens I always think of a massivly distorted image with a completly round image, I like the fact that your images do have distortion but not to the point where you wonder what was actually taken lol I like them I like the last one the most as much like shooting a lens wide open the subject you have at the centre of the image is sharp whereas everything else is distorted - in this case optically distorted rather than out of focus.

 

[Kev Pugh]

Thank David, I'm pretty much drawn to closeup with the FE for that reason too, using it wide open albeit only 2.8 it still gives a combination of the distortion and some DoF too.. I had planned on using it only for closeup stuff tomorrow, we'll see waht the weather hold up, it's either that or the Lensbaby comes out to play..