[Leica] Lighthouses again, there must be something wrong with me.

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Hi Bill:

Thanks, I try to do just that, that is I try to avoid the "fishy-ness" 
of the fisheye lens.

With the Leica shot I was trying to place the lighthouse "high on a 
hill" with the fence being used to draw the viewer's eye up to the 
lighthouse.

Jim


bill harting wrote:

> Hi Jim,  I like Nobska with the fisheye a lot.... I might have been 
> tempted to bring the fence even closer. On the other hand, that's what 
> works on the Rolleipic, too. I'm usually skeptical of ultrawides, but 
> these seem not to be shot for effect, but for their descriptive powers.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 6:15 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Lighthouses again, there must be something wrong with me.
> 
> 
>> Richard:
>>
>> Thanks for the kind words about my photo. Boston Light is about 2 miles
>> from where I was standing and the distant lighthouse, The Graves is
>> almost 3.5 miles.
>>
>> After seeing your photos from Nobska a few weeks ago, I decided drive
>> down there to try some with the 11x14 last Thursday.
>>
>> The sun was in and out, the winds were blowing hard, gusts to 40 mph and
>> there was a mist of dried salt spray in the air.  So... I left the 11x14
>> in the car and took these quickly with the tiny cameras and then
>> hightailed it out of there.
>>
>> http://www.hemenway.com/Nobska/
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>