{"id":7349,"date":"2015-10-31T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=7349"},"modified":"2015-10-31T10:44:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T00:44:07","slug":"a-surreal-view-of-australian-surrealism-with-the-olympus-mzd-8mm-f1-8-fisheye-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=7349","title":{"rendered":"A surreal view of Australian surrealism with the Olympus mZD 8mm f\/1.8 fisheye lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fisheye lenses are rather unique creative niche lenses and until I went to Palm Cove<\/a> I didn’t really think I had a need for one – but up there, a fisheye was the only way to capture the tall palms on the beach<\/a> with the ambience and field of view I wanted. For those images I used the cheap Samyang\/Rokinon fisheye<\/a> but it is manual focus and the front of the lens isquite close to the camera body meaning I often imaged my left hand in the shot inadvertently, nevertheless, this is a great lens if you are on a budget.<\/p>\n

Now that Olympus has created a superb weatherproofed pro quality Olympus f\/1.8 fisheye lens<\/a>, I just had to test it out, and what better test is an indoor art exhibition of Australian surrealism at Melbourne’s Ian Potter in Federation Square titled Lurid Beauty – Australian Surrealism and its Echoes<\/em><\/a>. I highly recommend anyone interested in art to see this very affordable exhibition, I really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

These were shot hand held without flash using the Olympus OM-D E-M1<\/a> Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A fisheye view of Lurid Beauty:<\/h2>\n

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Anne Wallace Sight Unseen<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Tom Moore Self-preservation<\/em> 2014:<\/p>\n

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Dusan Marek Equator<\/em> 1948:<\/p>\n

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Herbert McClintock Three Faces <\/em>1940:<\/p>\n

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Tim Schultz :<\/p>\n

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Hein Heckroth Australia<\/em> painted whilst a “German enemy alien” during World War II at the camp in Hay, NSW 1941:<\/p>\n

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There are many more wonderful works including more from James Gleeson – do yourself a favour and check it out.<\/p>\n

Architectural uses:<\/h2>\n

Melbourne’s Regent Theatre in Collins St which is so contrasty it is very hard to photograph:<\/p>\n

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Melbourne’s Federation Square:<\/p>\n

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and to show how well the lateral CA is controlled:<\/p>\n

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Melbourne’s famous back alley ways:<\/p>\n

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the very popular Hopetoun Tea Rooms:<\/p>\n

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Obviously I have applied some post-processing on the above images to make them a touch more surreal still.<\/p>\n

This lens is not for everyone, but does add another very useful tool to a photographer’s kit.<\/p>\n

I am looking forward to shooting some Milky Way Astroscapes<\/a> with it as the f\/1.8 aperture plus wide field of view should allow nice long 40-60sec exposures without star trailing.<\/p>\n

If you do not like the fish eye effect, there are some de-fishing processing options to flatten the image out to a more natural looking image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fisheye lenses are rather unique creative niche lenses and until I went to Palm Cove I didn’t really think I had a need for one – but up there, a fisheye was the only way to capture the tall palms on the beach with the ambience and field of view I wanted. For those images […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3],"tags":[285,18,241,14],"class_list":["post-7349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenses","category-photography","tag-fisheye","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-olympus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t