Fisheye lens

Topaz Clean can create very cool textured effects with an image! The photo above is a composite of an HDR image of the warbird with a fisheye lens, combined with a photo of clouds. To add a textured look, I used Topaz Clean, which added the wavy bendy detail throughout the image without the need…

More fun with a circular fisheye, creating a snow globe effect without the snow! (On my way back from Rocky Mountain National Park, I noticed airport security has quite the collection of snow globes)! I liked the way the fisheye wraps around the aspen trees and pulls everything close together for an interesting canopied look.…

I made a little self portrait on an aspen lined hiking path near Bear Lake (9,500 ft) in Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s beautiful up in the higher elevations, lots of color, orange, yellow and green. I always like the fisheye view of things, pulled together in a perfect circle. My portrait is in HDR,…

Fisheye lenses can be a creative tool for photographers. I used a Nikon16mm fisheye lens to photograph the stairway inside a lighthouse. A fisheye lens can alter the the look of a composition, making it a little more dramatic. HDR brought out the detail in the shadow and highlight areas, creating a better balanced image.…

One of the cool aspects of using a fisheye lens is that it allows you to be very creative! Certain outcomes are predictable, and others are serendipitous – which makes the lens great fun to experiment with! I used a Nikon 16mm fisheye lens to capture all the interesting and colorful elements of the composition.…