Here’s a first try. If I feel motivated, I may try lightening the clouds a bit, but then the bridge towers (especially the gray ones) will look unnaturally dark for the brighter sky.

I like the composition here, but the light was so blah. I can probably photoshop the lighting to bring life to the picture – is it worth the effort? I would need a brighter/bluer sky, and more saturated and vibrant colors on the bridge and the cars. …and maybe a little dehazing in the background.

Hi Guys! Barbara got this photo taken on an iPhone 6 from her son. She would like to print and frame it, but I am not sure I can do much to make it better. It looks fuzzy to me, and noisy, and I’m not sure why. ….or what I can do about it. I have tried to change its clarity, but an improvement in one bit results in bad effects in another bit. I tried to work with it both in Camera Raw and Photoshop, changing the clarity or using a sharpening filter, and it never looks better.

Ideas?

Here are two pictures comparing the 9mm (18mm) fisheye from the edge of the sidewalk with two shots from a 25MM (50mm), one from the sidewalk and one from across the street. I am disappointed with the limited fisheye effect using the fisheye lens. I am looking for how the lenses might distort the picture, so did not touch up the photos.

Some street shots like these Jim? Maybe I just don’t have any idea what to do with a fisheye to get something interesting from it?

This one looks a little distorted – maybe just a poor subject for a fisheye?

I didn’t have a “fisheye objective” for this one. I just wanted to see what the lens could do with a long shot. Nothing here says fisheye to me.

Here’s a lens I bought a while ago, but never used. It was inexpensive, and I thought I might someday want to play with a fisheye perspective. It has only three focus settings – infinity, distant, and close. As a 9mm lens, it is the equivalent of an 18mm lens on a full-frame camera, so it is very wide angle.

Now, after playing with it for two days (yesterday I used in incorrectly and everything was out of focus), I still don’t see much use for this lens. The fisheye effect has never been one that I have liked, and with this lens, I only got some interesting curvatures when the subject was close to me – within ten feet or less. When the subject was further away, I just got what appears to be just a bit of a bend (actually, the besd parallels the bend in the fence, but it is almost unnoticeable). As you can see in this picture, the fence had some interesting shape, but the bridge in the background hardly looked distorted at all.

Is this because it is such a wide angle lens, which tends to overemphasize the distance to the background? I would be interested in trying some higher end fisheyes to compare results.