Last weekend saw us enjoying a lovely day out and we had Maisie with us for her holidays (school half term). She comes to stay with us every school holiday and it's a treat to have her with us. Sunday saw us going to Cambridge to get some stuff for Maisie's bridesmaid duties so I felt it would be a good idea to let Marianne and Maisie to enjoy some 'together' time - unhindered by me. At least for a couple of hours. So, what could I do? The other day we bought a new 'novelty ' lens (some call it that anyway) , mainly to do arty shots at weddings etc. It's an extreme wide-angle or fish-eye lens. Boy, is it a fun thing. So that was what Barry did.... photographed all the traditional Cambridge stuff through the eyes of a fish!
I did enjoy using the lens.... but it does has it's problems. It's field of vision is so great elbows and feet have to kept in! I remember getting a book for my kids which was called "Find (or was it, Where's?) Wally". You had to find this character in amongst a whole of mess of characters but he was always dressed the same. I felt like Wally.... if it wasn't my foot, it was my elbow. If it wasn't either, it was my shadow!
This lens come with a software bonus. With CaptureNX you can use this lens as a fairly well corrected wide-angle lens, it removes all the distortion.... I was amazed.
Before.......
After .......
Marianne and Maisie had really good time too. Well, they had a lot of bags - the contents of which some I was not allowed to see. I Wonder.... Weddings, Treats, Girly Time?
3 comments:
Hi Barry, that lens is way cool plus the software to change it. Stopping in from Marianne's site.
Heh, girly time indeed, it does happen to be a 'must have'..:^)
Very Cool Lens and what fun you're having with it, very nice shots!
HAH! Drink me, indeed :^)
FYI... there ARE more than one button on the mousie... heh.
I've had the flu for over a week but before that I think I may 'have it' for posting the photographs... such as they are...
Thanks for stopping by...
You and Marianne are having a whirlwind of activities and I imagine it will be non-stop for... another 3weeks and some? :^)
I am beyond happy for the both of you.
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