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Inside Out – Mussenden Temple
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I was up at Mussenden temple today and was surprised to find the door open.
So I got a shot from inside and a shot from the beach below. The first really belongs in the architecture section but I feel these images belong together.
It might interest you to know that these images were both shot at the same focal length on the same lens.
Pentax 10-17mm DA at 10mm FisheyeC+C most welcome as always.
I find the distortions in the interior pic disturbing and a bit unpleasant, though different. I think my problem is
with the ‘wavy’ floor — it goes a bit up and down, rather than being simply curved — almost like
sea-sickness. OTOH this isn’t apparent in the excellent outside pic of the Temple. Would correcting the interior distortions make it better?Two lovely shots Andy, love the effect in the first one. As you well know.the fish eye is hard to get right and this central comp has worked lovely. For me any way.
Love the tones with the full range inside.
The second is processed lovely with those great lead in lines.
Will have to get out a run now the long evenings are coming back.
sean.
Thanks folks,
RD53, thanks for those observations. The funny thing is that the distortions are identical in both of these shots. It is just that in the landscape photograph the fisheye is in “stealth mode” as there are no horizontal or vertical lines to give the game away. I might try a defish on the interior image just out of curiosity, although I suspect that would involve a little bit too much cropping.
I was very sad to hear that a man’s body was found at the entrance to that tunnel just 30mins after I visited. It must have been lying there for some time and am glad I didn’t stumble across it as I was with my young lad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/7975850.stm
The horizon in the second is level; in the first, were you not pointing upwards?
Robert,
It doesn’t actually matter where the lens is pointed, the inherent distortions of a lens are always the same. The choice of subject and positioning of the subject dictates whether these distortions are visible or not.
By adjusting the angle of the lens you are just controlling where on that distortion pattern you are placing the subjects of your photograph. In the landscape image I have chosen to place the sand and sky in the most distorted part of lens field. These are just as distorted as the floor of the interior photo, it is just that your mind isn’t expecting to see straight lines in sand pattens.
I’m not disagreeing — but I thought that if you used a fisheye levelled, with the horizon in the middle, then the horizon
would be straight or linear, and not curved up or down — it might be curved front to back, but you won’t see this. [Of course,
I don’t have a fisheye :cry: ]Edit: perhaps I’m not explaining what I mean very well. If the fisheye is levelled, then a vertical through the middle will be
straight — not curved to the side, likewise a horizontal through the middle will be straight — meaning not curved up or down.Second shot is a great one – well composed, well converted and just ….well.
Less of the technical garbage guys – does it float your boat or not!!?
Dee & Ron
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