Thanks John! The symmetry definitely works well with the frame. I love the sun shining with little sun stars through the background in the other though....
I'd say the first is the stronger composition, the second has more of a chaotic appeal.
Arista Pro 400 (Ilford HP5 Plus) 4x5 film expired in 2001, Legacy Pro L110.
Run away from the mountains by Jingmin Zhou, on Flickr
Thanks 6x6 - I'm definitely going to try printing the symmetrical one.
And, I hope you all are still in the mood for some circular images . I went on a short trip to Mississippi this past week. Here's something I just hung up to dry, and grabbed a quick pic with my cell phone:
Davis Bayou, Gulf Islands National Seashore - Speed Graphic / 35mm fisheye / T-Max 100 / Pyrocat
A little world unto itself!
...thats it! A little world - more like the illusion that everything is trapped inside a glass sphere...the way things seem to be trying to push outwards yet having to yield because there is no escape! Would also be interesting to play with this "trapped" concept by/while incorporating human subjects.
The Mamiya not only benefits from a built-in Seiko shutter, but using filters on it is E-Z -- unlike most fisheyes. I'm not sure if this is true for all of the Mamiya 37mm lenses -- they made several versions -- but on my C 37mm (RB Pro-S era) there is a rear 40.5mm filter thread. With two step up rings, I can use any of my 55 or 77mm filters (my standards) -- even polarizers. (I still need to make some IR shots someday, though. )
And don't forget that with simple cropping you can make a FULL-FRAME 180° fisheye image -- which can be quite dramatic for certain subjects.
http://www.subclub.org/fujinon/gonefishin.pdf
Thanks y'all - I like the "little world" idea. Though it reminds me of the "little planet" images that were a big fad maybe ten years ago in the digital world, done by making a ton of images and stitched in photoshop into a sphere
xkaes, the Pentax has the usual fisheye filter set built-in, but not the rear filter thread. That's interesting, though perhaps not of much use other than the IR filter idea you mentioned (I tend to use R25 myself). I'm not sure what you mean by "full-frame 180 degree fisheye" in context of the 37mm vs my 35mm Pentax - that's exactly what I have here on 4x5 film (scanned and cropped square, of course). Perhaps you thought I meant a 35mm-film-sized fisheye but I mean the one for Pentax 67, 35mm focal length. As usual your website doesn't work - DNS errors on your end.
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