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The colour and light in this shot is just awesome, i love that fisheye. Great perspective again.
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Beautiful job - what filter and fisheye did you use? Man...
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Lens used was a Nikkor 10.5mm DX f/2.8. No filter, just contrast and saturation enhancements in Photoshop. Glad you liked it
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beautiful! how do you get the sky to go from so dark to so light like that?
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nice! i love it. i gotta ask how you avoid vignetting with such a wide angle? i want a fisheye but most of the ones ive seen are way to much money for me.
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Cheers
The lens I was using was specifically designed for cropped dslr sensors (Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8 DX FE). So vignetting of any sort isn't a problem. There can be some fall-off across the frame due to varying light intensity in skies (mainly at sunset) but that's to be expected with any wide lens on any body
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Awesome. I love fisheye shots. Really nice colours, high contrast, and lighting.
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B. R. I. L. L. I. A. N. T.
Amazingly vivid, both visually and emotionally. Maybe it's just me, but I can feel the color in this as if it's tangible. Looks like you used a fish-eye AND a polarizing filter? maybe? Anyway, I love it. Very inspirational.
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T. H. A. N. K. S. <3
Yer fisheye, no polariser (cos you can't mount anything on the front and it's too hard/I'm too lazy to find a rear gelatin circular polariser, and it's not really needed), just a bit of work in photoshop.
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Ahh photoshop. Lovely photoshop. 
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oh youve gotta love the fish-eye here, well taken and the fish-eye really makes for an interesting photo, although ive gotta ask how youve avoided glare when shooting directly into the sun?
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Cheers..
Wellllllllll, fisheyes usually have pretty good flare control (because most of the light falling on the lens is image forming), so the only things to worry about are aperture ghosts and internal reflections which are both fairly minimal with this lens if you get the light source in the right location. Frame it right and it's really easy to avoid
This [link] is an example of what can happen with that lens with the sun in frame (taken that same night as well, pretty much ruined something I liked 
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Yeah now thats how i expected this to to come out like, well you learn something new everyday! mind if i ask what lens it is you use and how much it set you back? ive got a convertor but it tends to put the extremes out of focus(unless thats me with a low DOF)
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Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8 DX fisheye. It would work fine on your new D70s
Paid about $900 AUD (~350 GBP) imported from Hong Kong because we get ripped off down here for lenses.
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mite just have to invest then!
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amazing shot the fish eye lens make the picture uniqe..............
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whoaaaa. ok, stupid question time, why is everything bent?
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Because the focal length is just 11mm, I should imagine
Great shot.
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in fact, the focal length has little to do with it, but rather the degree at which the photograph is viewing. The 180 degree (diagonally), covers everything you would see if you stuck your arms out away from your body so you could barely see your fingers in the edge of your view. Due to the funneling of light through the glass of the lens, the image is distorted, but can be corrected digitally now. Many artists prefer to leave them distorted for effect. As long as it isn't architecture, most photographers leave it.
Great work here, Frink. I really enjoy the near sundown and deep hues of the sky and foreground. Well done.
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