With a fisheye lens, you’ll need to get really close to your subject. For this image, we were three feet away from the beach huts
CAMERA SKILLS
canon lens skills
CANON SCHOOL
check the frame edges
The extremely wide field of view you get with a fisheye lens means that you can end up with your feet, your shadow or your tripod in the bottom of the shot. This usually looks like a mistake on your part, so always take a quick look at the edges of the frame to make sure you aren’t in the shot!
With such an extreme field of view that includes large areas of sky and foreground, and no chance of using ND grad filters, the results from a fisheye lens often suffer from
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too much contrast from left to right. The best solution for this is to shoot in Raw format and adjust the exposure in Adobe Camera Raw to ensure that as much highlight and shadow
detail as possible is retained. In extreme conditions you can also try shooting several different exposures and combining them as a composite in Photoshop.
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PROJECTS
get well-balanced exposures
ESSENTIAL SLR SKILLS
SUPER TIP!
GEAR TESTS
Canon Photographer’s Handbook
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