I’m always amazed at how falling fall leaves are caught, often in a tenuous manner, by something on their way to the ground. This series of posts is dedicated to images of such hanging leaves.
Stay tuned for Hanging Leaves Part 2,
Ken
I published a number of Substack posts (kenkemp650.substack.com) with images of fall leaves. This post contains a subset of images from my Substack series “Grounded Leaves”.
These photos depict ordinary scenes one can see in the fall, especially on a forest floor. Which means these are not unique artistic creations and are only a capture of the ordinary, natural beauty we often take for granted, while we trample these fallen leaves beneath our feet.
Stay tuned for “Hanging Leaves”,
Ken
Continued from part 8 – a fall forest photo hike with a fisheye lens.
This wraps up this fisheye photo hike.
Until next time,
Ken
Continued from part 7 – a fall forest photo hike with a fisheye lens.
To be continued,
Ken
Continued from part 6 – a fall forest photo hike with a fisheye lens.
To be continued,
Ken
Continued from par 5 – a fall forest photo hike with a fisheye lens.
To be continued,
Ken
Continued from part 4 – a fall forest photo hike with a fisheye lens.
To be continued,
Ken
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
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
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
