Continued from Part 1 – a fall forest photo hike with a fisheye lens.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – A Fish Out of Water – Part 2
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Indiana Fall 2024 – A Fish Out of Water – Part 1
I felt that I needed to try something different with my fall photography this year. My first experiment this year is with a fisheye lens. For a long time, I have thought about purchasing the Nikon 8-15mm zoom fisheye lens, but it is expensive and I could never convince myself that I would use such a lens enough to justify the expense. Consequently, I began to look at alternative fisheye lenses. One photographer reviewing such lenses gave a nod to the older Nikon 16mm prime fisheye. I found a good used one of these for less than $300 – a price I was willing to pay.
This blog series will show some of my results shooting fall photos with the Nikon 16mm fisheye, which is a small lens. It felt strange walking around with a big DSLR and a tiny lens, since I was accustomed to shooting with much larger lenses like the massive Nikon 14-24mm, the Nikon 24-70mm and sometimes the Nikon 80-400mm.
It might be small, but this lens has a really wide 180 degree view. It is so wide that one has to be careful not to get a tripod leg or a foot or some other unwanted object in a shot. To avoid the tripod issue, I shot completely handheld. Occasionally, I did get a foot or part of a leg in shots without realizing it until I viewed the images on a large monitor. The super wide angle causes some problems with compositions, too.
I made no attempt to apply lens corrections, since it was the fisheye distortion that I wanted. (I did experiment with lens corrections to see what would happen. Sometimes the corrections resulted in “normal” looking images. Sometimes the corrections resulted in some correction, but introducing other distortions).
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – Part 7 – A Walk in a Forest
Continued from Part 6,
This concludes my first walk in a portion of the forest contained within Brown County State Park, Indiana, Fall 2024.
Thanks for following,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – Part 6 – A Walk in a Forest
Continued from Part 5,
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – Part 5 – A Walk in a Forest
Continued from Part 4,
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – Part 4 – A Walk in a Forest
Continued from Part 3,
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – Part 3 – A Walk in a Forest
This is a continuation of forest images shot in Brown County State Park, Indiana in the early fall of 2024.
More fall images to come,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – Part 2 – A Walk in a Forest
I’ve been concerned that my traditional fall images are becoming monotonous. This year I decided to experiment with new (to me) photographic techniques. Yet, concerned that my venture into a new realm might fail, I still made sure that I captured plenty of “standard” fall images. So before I reveal the results of my photographic experimentation, I’ll share plenty of the old standby type fall images.
Stay tuned for more fall images from my first 2024 walk in an Indiana forest,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 27 – Abstract Images (Continued)
This is the second part of my post on abstract images of fall trees via ICM (intentional camera movement).
These two images (above and below) are the same but with different editing applied. These are not realistic natural images, so I’m not bothered by artistic renditions via edits.
The same scene can yield very different results, depending upon the camera movement.
I must admit that I had fun creating these abstracts. Maybe I should do this more often and I like the vertical motion abstracts of trees much more than those created via horizontal camera movement.
Until next time,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 25 – Frosty Halloween Morning
Prior to any road trip, I always check the weather forecast for my destination, so that I know how to prepare for the expected weather. I’ve also learned to heed the season and expect the unexpected change in the weather.
This fall, the first few days of our visit to Indiana, the weather was much as forecast, then an unexpected cold front came across most of the U.S., dropping temperatures well below my allowance for cold outings. I had brought my typical normal cold weather gear and even a few chemical hand warmers, since my fingers tend to get cold even in mild winter weather. And once my fingers get numb with cold, I can’t easily operate my camera controls.
I knew I would still want to get out in the cold weather, so I purchased additional cold weather clothing and more hand and foot warmers in a local store.
Halloween morning was the first below freezing weather we had during this trip. I knew the cold front coming in over the warmer landscape and warmer bodies of water would result in early morning water vapor condensing into mist or fog. So I went out again to Ogle Lake in Brown County State Park early in the morning of October 31.
It was, indeed, a heavy frost morning and mist was rising from the lake surface.
By the time I had obtained these few images, my fingers, even with the hand warmers in my fleece mittens with the exposable thumb and finger tips, were so numb that I had to give up shooting. I retreated to my vehicle, started the engine and sat there until my fingers were warm enough to drive away.
I really would have liked to spend more time photographing frosty scenes around the park this morning, but I knew I could only shoot for a few minutes at a time due to the cold weather effect upon my fingers. I settled for getting one shot at an overlook in the park, before heading back to the cabin.
Until next time,
Ken