{"id":1657,"date":"2024-12-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2024-12-25T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T04:04:21","slug":"fisheye-view-of-melbourne-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/fisheye-view-of-melbourne-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisheye view of Melbourne Central"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Melbourne Central Shot Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Melbourne Central Clock<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Melbourne Central Clock<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

I acquired the Nikon AF-S Fisheye Nikkor 8-15mm f\/3.5-4.5E ED lens a few years ago while I was still using the Nikon D850 as my main camera. However, I have not had the opportunity to do this lens any justice until 21 December 2024 when we visited the city. On this day, the Nikkor Z 50mm f\/1.8 S lens was my main lens on the Nikon Z8 but took the fisheye lens with a Nikon FTZ II adapter just in case there would be a reason to use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Someone once said that to use a fisheye lens effectively, the photograph must look like it wasn’t taken with a fisheye lens at a glance. When we were in Melbourne Central, I thought the architecture of the location was designed to be photographed with a fisheye lens. The circularity and curvature of the interior of the building will compliment the distortion of the lens. I think I have achieved the goal of taking a picture with a fisheye lens that still looks reasonably natural. I hope you agree with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first 2 photographs are taken at 15mm which has a 3:2 aspect ratio. When the lens is zoomed at 8mm, I have to remove the lens hood so that a circular image can be taken. The lens has a 180 degree view of view from the front element with either focal length. Owing to the high contrast, I have to employ 5-shot backet of 1 2\/3 stops apart and stack the images with Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First: Nikon Z8, Nikkor 8-15mm f\/3.5-4.5E ED @ 15mm f\/4.5 1\/200s ISO-64.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second: Nikon Z8, Nikkor 8-15mm f\/3.5-4.5E ED @ 15mm f\/4.5 1\/200s ISO-100.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third: Nikon Z8, Nikkor 8-15mm f\/3.5-4.5E ED @ 8mm f\/4.5 1\/200s ISO-64.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I acquired the Nikon AF-S Fisheye Nikkor 8-15mm f\/3.5-4.5E ED lens a few years ago while I was still using the Nikon D850 as my main camera. However, I have not had the opportunity to do this lens any justice … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,27,202],"tags":[205,88,17,206,16,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}