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Leadenhall Market from a Different Perspective
Leadenhall Market from a Different Perspective
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2009-07 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Sigma 4.5mm f2.8 EX DC Circular Fisheye for Canon
Location: London
Date: Jul 28, 2009
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Abstract, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Jul 29, 2009

 Taken using a 4.5mm circular fisheye that Hazel hired for me ... v cool. The lens produces a circular image, it's not done in editing afterwards.

I predict a low 5's at most as I expect a lot of people to hate it ... I think it's very cool!

[Aug. 4th, 2009 07:25:24 AM]

Wow, started at 6.3 and has crept up to 6.5 after 108 votes. I didn't expect so many people to like this :)

This was handheld for 3 exposures 2 stops apart. The 3 raw shots were combined in photomatix, I played with the sliders a bit till I liked it!! Saved and then curves and levels in CS3. Cropped to make the image square, added a black layer for the border and selected a circle a few pixels in to give the outer edge a nice finish, resized to 700 (had to use more compression than normal to get under 200kb!), noise ninja and save

Statistics
Place: 21 out of 419
Avg (all users): 6.5987
Avg (commenters): 7.4444
Avg (participants): 6.5739
Avg (non-participants): 6.6757
Views since voting: 1968
Views during voting: 264
Votes: 152
Comments: 15
Favorites: 8 (view)

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 12/12/2009 09:27:16 AM
Great image. I would love to try this lens out for a weekend. Very nice indeed.
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 12/11/2009 05:52:08 PM
What an amazing image! That lens is totally cool, and the scene you have chosen to employ it on, certainly beautiful in its own right, becomes spectacular. The beautiful jewel-like colours are just perfect in this context.
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 08/08/2009 02:48:45 PM
Greetings from Andi via the Critique Club

First Impression: You need to go to extremes to get a WOW! shot on dpc these days and gladly this is one of those shots - WOW! The colours really pop and it was fun viewing the image and knowing the location and what it actually looks like.

Composition: Once you get into the image the composition is excellent and I like the placement of the main roof window with the two rows of shops leading away.

Subject: This is a great place for shooting but have never seen it look like this before, I think I'll fall over next time I'm there lol.

Technical: 3 images 2 stops apart? I can see that being simple on a tripod but how did you do it hand held? with a 'normal' image you can crop to get everything lined up but would image it would be almost impossible with a lens that produses a circular image (or did the camera expose the same single shot 3 times.

Final thoughts: I thinking renting this lens would be the way to go as whilst I'd use it lots for a while I imagine it would soon just sit in my bag. A great shot and a decent placement in a FS with (as you say) an image that the average dpc'er might not approve of. You are getting quite a collection of 'unusual' images in your portfolio now, keep them coming!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/08/2009 10:48:00 AM
Totally awesome, I was one of your 10's, nice work!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/07/2009 09:31:58 PM
FUN!!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/07/2009 03:25:34 AM
Aren't these fisheyes so cool to play with.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/06/2009 03:10:16 PM
Mak? A thoroughly interesting photo, and a subject and composition that suits the high saturation and HDR type processing.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/05/2009 01:21:22 PM
impressive
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/03/2009 10:11:04 PM
This is so cool! Please share how you did this after the challenge. 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/03/2009 05:09:12 PM
Have been sat here a couple of minutes thinking I know this place but couldn't remember what it was called then scrolled down to find out its in the title lol. Nice one!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/02/2009 01:44:59 PM
love this. Escher-esque. colors are awesome! but I also think it would be nice in B&W.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/02/2009 12:02:38 AM
Very interesting perspective. I'll be interested to see the details regarding the exposure. The person sitting and the fellow standing show no motion blur, yet I initially got the sense of a long exposure from the various points of light.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/01/2009 08:19:19 AM
How fun is that????
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 08/01/2009 02:41:36 AM
very Escher-esque if there is such a word lol.
This works very well indeed. (it's been years since I've been there)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/01/2009 01:00:51 AM
I've seen this before but cannot remember who did this. Awesome fisheye.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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