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      06-20-2014, 09:07 PM   #3
dcstep
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Wow! You're really dedicated to the fish-eye perspective. It's really interesting to see what you can do with one of these very special lenses.

I use a 15mm diagonal fish-eye quite extensively, but mainly as an ultra-wide angle lens. "Diagonal fish-eye" means that it only covers 180-degrees on the diagonal and will not produce a round image, as in most of yours.

I like to use my 15mm to move in really close, take a wide image and then de-fish it with my DxO Optics Pro Raw conversion software. Here's a de-fished selfie:

502 Selfie by dcstep, on Flickr

Note the starburst at the top of the image. This is something that my particular Canon 15mm does particularly well at small apertures.

Ultra-wide and fish-eye lenses open up a whole new perspective for many photographers. Trying an image de-fished often leads to interesting results.
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