I’ve been not feeling too well the last few days (I caught a cold, just like last Christmas…), but because it’s raining tomorrow and i really wanted to test out my new fish-eye lens, i went outside anyway - not too far away - to shoot some pictures.

First i shot a picture of the plaza of Christian Science Church. I was standing in the fountain area and shot towards Mass Ave. I noticed that i had to pay good attention to the following two things:

• Be sure that your hands (or your feet) do not appear in the picture.
• Figure out what must be horizontal and/or vertical. It is rather hard to get a ’straight’ horizon with a fish-ye lens.
• Composing a picture definately works differently with a fish-eye lens. 

Below is the first picture. It is cropped somewhat, because i had to rotate the picture 3^o clock-wise (for a ’straight’ horizon):

The next two pictures are one and the same. The first is the original picture. The second has been ’straightened’ using the ‘Fish Eye‘ tool in Nikon Capture, with ‘Include areas where there is no image data‘  checked, and then manually cropped to exclude those areas again.

The original picture:

The ’straightened’ picture:

I also noticed that checking the ‘Include areas where there is no image data‘, will affect the sharpening. I had to set the radius to no more than 0.2px in Photoshop, otherwise it would have been waaaay to over-sharpened…. strange… i have to search or ask for this issue somewhere on a forum (dgrin/dpreview) somewhere.

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