Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like them, especially the first one, but when I have shown fish-eye lens photos in portfolio reviews (I loved the fact that I could get the entire house in Honduras in one photo!), the reviews have tossed them out. Tina On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > While, along with a lot of things, I can take or leave them, I liked > Olmsted 6918 as the sprinkling of humanity gives the image a lot more > meaning than the usual nondescript landscape shots. > > Generally, I feel wide angle is great for property sellers (realtors) who > want to create delusions of grandeur amidst the banality of the normal... > > Douglas > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aram Langhans" <leica_r8 at > hotmail.com> > To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Leica Reflex" <LeicaReflex at > freelists.org > > > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 7:18 PM > Subject: [Leica] New Toy > > > > Before we went to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, I ordered a fisheye >> lens. Unfortunately, it did not come in time, but I kept it anyway. I >> tried to use it on our trip home and here are a few examples. >> >> From Yosemite, at night. Moon was almost full, so not many stars. view >> large, please, so you can see them. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/y/Night+Stars-6951.jpg.html >> >> A few from Olmsted point. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/y/Olmsted+Point-6918.jpg.html >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/y/Olmsted+Point-6913.jpg.html >> >> And one from above Bishop in the Eastern Sierra Mountains. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f15/es/Bishop+Canyon-6775.jpg.html >> >> Kind of fun. Not for everything, mind you, but interesting. I bough the >> 12mm/2.8 Rokinon for Nikon mount. Not without it?s faults, but worth the >> money. >> >> Comments welcome. >> >> Aram Langhans >> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher >> & Unemployed photographer >> >> ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin >> himself would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/