Continued from part 6 – a fall forest photo hike with a fisheye lens.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – A Fish Out of Water – Part 7
Tag: Hoosier National Forest
Indiana Fall 2024 – A Fish Out of Water – Part 6
Continued from par 5 – a fall forest photo hike with a fisheye lens.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – A Fish Out of Water – Part 5
Continued from part 4 – a fall forest photo hike with a fisheye lens.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – A Fish Out of Water – Part 4
Continued from Part 3 – a fall forest photo hike with a fisheye lens.
Images 34 and 35 are essentially the same scene, with 34 a vertical shot and 35 a horizontal.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – A Fish Out of Water – Part 3
Continued from part 2 – a fall forest photo hike with a fisheye lens.
The image above is one of the few exceptions in which I applied the lens profile correction. In this case the primary result of that correction was to reduce the width of the old log and maybe take out a little length wise curvature. (Shapes of leaves might have been affected, too).
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2024 – A Fish Out of Water – Part 2
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 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 2021, Part 18 – T. C. Steele Historic Site
I found the T. C. Steele Historic Site marked on an online map of the area around my operational base in Indiana. I had never heard of T. C. Steele, so I did what I usually do in such situations. I searched for information on the internet and discovered that T. C. Steele (1847 – 1926) was an American Impressionist painter, and a member of a group known as the Hoosier Group of painters. I decided it worth while to check out this historic site.
The site is located at the actual home and studio in the countryside, where T.C and his wife lived and worked. There were maybe a couple of more visitors at the site, when I arrived at a fair sized, newish looking parking lot that even had an electric vehicle charging station.
As I walked towards the visitor center, I stopped at the wagon with iron rimmed, wood spoked wheels that served as T. C.’s portable studio. The wagon is a custom built, enclosed wagon with a wood burning stove in one corner. I made a few iPhone images of the interior and exterior, but none were sufficient to fully capture the utility and quaintness of the vehicle.
There is a modest fee, payable at the visitor center. There are scheduled tours that one can take to see the interior of the studios and there are hiking trails around the grounds, garden and through a portion of the Hoosier National Forest across the road from the site.
I elected to walk the grounds on my own, then take a trail through the forest.
The grounds and gardens are attractive and pleasant to walk through. I was impressed by the large hardwood trees on the site, but my attempts to photograph those trees and showcase the grounds did not work out well.
I chose a forest trail and hoped for better photographic results in the woods.
The sheer volume of objects in a forest make it difficult to get really unique images (at least for me). I went through my photos a number of times, thinking most were a lost cause, before finally beginning to choose a few to edit.
Photos in forest can seem so much alike, that I get easily discouraged trying to capture the scenes.
In the end it seems that forest photos are mostly about colors, textures and light, since most of the objects in the photos are so much alike. I struggle to come up with good titles for images, especially the forest ones. I could not decide which title was best for the image above, so I gave it two.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana, Fall 2021, Part 17 – Charles C. Deam Wilderness
A continuation of photos captured during a morning hike in the Charles C. Deam Wilderness area of the Hoosier National Forest, Indiana.
That’s it for this hike.
Until next time,
Ken
Indiana, Fall 2021, Part 16 – Charles C. Deam Wilderness
I returned to the old outlook tower that I found earlier, where a trailhead into the Charles C. Deam Wilderness originated. This time I was prepared to hike with my DSLR.
To be continued,
Ken