Some people maintain that a fisheye lens cannot be used to photograph people. I find this not entirely true. By careful framing one can achieve quite satisfactory results.

Fisheye in action

Fisheye in action Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek:

Winterthur, Switzerland, December 2009

Who said fisheye cannot be used to photograph people.

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• NIKON D700 • 1/60 sec at f/8.0 (0 EV) • ISO 400 • Spot metering • Aperture priority • flash fired • 16 mm f/2.8 @ 16 mm •

• NIKON D700 • shooting mode:Single-Frame • AF Fisheye Nikkor 16mm f/2.8D • VR:Off • focus mode:AF-C • AF area:Single Area • primary AF point:C6 (Center) • AF points used: • focus distance:0.35 m • DOF:0.25 m (0.27 – 0.52) • FOV:94.1 deg (0.76 m) • hyperfocal distance:1.07 m • light source:Flash • flash:On, Return not detected • flash mode:Fired, External • flash setting:Normal • flash type:3.01 (SU-800 Remote Commander) • flash flags:[0], [1] • Group A (mode, compensation, output):iTTL-BL, 0, – • Group B (mode, compensation, output):Off, 0, – • Group C (mode, compensation, output):Off, 0, – • File Type:NEF • bit depth:14 •

2009-12-04-2352-2708

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