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April, 2007 - In the Field - Photographing a Daffodil Farm
Although the rest of Canada is still digging itself out of snow, spring comes pretty early for Victoria B.C., my home. There are several daffodil farms near our airport and I spent a day taking pictures.
I started out taking pictures with my 300mm lens. I was able to selectively focus on several flowers, but I wasn't really able to get a shot that showed the expanse of the field -- which is pretty incredible. I then tried a standard "wide angle" - a 17-35mm; however, as with all wide angles on Nikon digital cameras, it cropped my 17mm to 28mm so the effect wasn't as good. My pictures were simply looking boring... until I put on the fisheye.
The 10.5mm Nikkor 2.8 fisheye is one of my prize posessions. I've won a few awards with pictures taken with this lens -- a lens that turns generic subjects into works of art. It's amazing to see the world through such a wide angle and I loved that, by putting my lens inches away from a single flower, I was able to a) selectively focus on a flower and b) still show the vastness of the daffodil field.
Although the rest of Canada is still digging itself out of snow, spring comes pretty early for Victoria B.C., my home. There are several daffodil farms near our airport and I spent a day taking pictures.
I started out taking pictures with my 300mm lens. I was able to selectively focus on several flowers, but I wasn't really able to get a shot that showed the expanse of the field -- which is pretty incredible. I then tried a standard "wide angle" - a 17-35mm; however, as with all wide angles on Nikon digital cameras, it cropped my 17mm to 28mm so the effect wasn't as good. My pictures were simply looking boring... until I put on the fisheye.
The 10.5mm Nikkor 2.8 fisheye is one of my prize posessions. I've won a few awards with pictures taken with this lens -- a lens that turns generic subjects into works of art. It's amazing to see the world through such a wide angle and I loved that, by putting my lens inches away from a single flower, I was able to a) selectively focus on a flower and b) still show the vastness of the daffodil field.
April, 2007 - In the Field - Photographing a Daffodil Farm
Although the rest of Canada is still digging itself out of snow, spring comes pretty early for Victoria B.C., my home. There are several daffodil farms near our airport and I spent a day taking pictures.
I started out taking pictures with my 300mm lens. I was able to selectively focus on several flowers, but I wasn't really able to get a shot that showed the expanse of the field -- which is pretty incredible. I then tried a standard "wide angle" - a 17-35mm; however, as with all wide angles on Nikon digital cameras, it cropped my 17mm to 28mm so the effect wasn't as good. My pictures were simply looking boring... until I put on the fisheye.
The 10.5mm Nikkor 2.8 fisheye is one of my prize posessions. I've won a few awards with pictures taken with this lens -- a lens that turns generic subjects into works of art. It's amazing to see the world through such a wide angle and I loved that, by putting my lens inches away from a single flower, I was able to a) selectively focus on a flower and b) still show the vastness of the daffodil field.
Although the rest of Canada is still digging itself out of snow, spring comes pretty early for Victoria B.C., my home. There are several daffodil farms near our airport and I spent a day taking pictures.
I started out taking pictures with my 300mm lens. I was able to selectively focus on several flowers, but I wasn't really able to get a shot that showed the expanse of the field -- which is pretty incredible. I then tried a standard "wide angle" - a 17-35mm; however, as with all wide angles on Nikon digital cameras, it cropped my 17mm to 28mm so the effect wasn't as good. My pictures were simply looking boring... until I put on the fisheye.
The 10.5mm Nikkor 2.8 fisheye is one of my prize posessions. I've won a few awards with pictures taken with this lens -- a lens that turns generic subjects into works of art. It's amazing to see the world through such a wide angle and I loved that, by putting my lens inches away from a single flower, I was able to a) selectively focus on a flower and b) still show the vastness of the daffodil field.
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