Should have worded this more precisely. Divers in full fisheye shots require more attention to positioning. If it’s done right like in your examples there is absolutely no problem.
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Sony a7R III + FE 24mm 1.4 GM
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Sony a7R III + FE 24mm 1.4 GM
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8 minutes ago, hyp said:
Should have worded this more precisely. Divers in full fisheye shots require more attention to positioning. If it’s done right like in your examples there is absolutely no problem.
Agree, just need to keep them out of the corners I think the second shot is about as close to a corner as you would want to be and no, don't want to guess which is done with a fisheye.
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3 hours ago, ChrisRoss said:
Agree, just need to keep them out of the corners I think the second shot is about as close to a corner as you would want to be and no, don't want to guess which is done with a fisheye.
Yeah, as long as you don’t have limbs extending close towards the camera, the fisheye works pretty well and is brilliant for reducing the amount of water between camera and subject - as Chris explained so well in an earlier post. So very good for wide-angle shots when the water isn’t crystal clear. Which is usually!
For the record the second pic used the Nikkor 16-35. The rest are all fisheye, the Sigma 15mm.
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The problem with the fisheye is when the divers or large animal are very close to the lens and forced perspective makes them look much bigger like the soft coral and other growth that look larger than the diver. In the two split images I posted the fins look larger because they are closer to the lens than the subject, however in the fisheye shot the fin looks larger than the entire diver while the rectilinear lens makes the fins look more proportinoal to the subject.
