San Francisco, CA – Grace Cathedral (HDR)

Here is the interior of Grace Cathedral revisited in fisheye!   If you have a beautiful church near you or in a location you are visiting…visit and take an HDR!  Churches and Cathedral’s in HDR can’t be beat!   Even fisheye shots are just too cool!   Nemo would approve!!  (from Finding Nemo)

Here is some Fisheye lens info:  In photography, a fisheye lens is a wide-angle lens that takes in an extremely wide, hemispherical image. Originally developed for use in meteorology to study cloud formation and called “whole-sky lenses”, fisheye lenses quickly became popular in general photography for their unique, distorted appearance. They are often used by photographers shooting broad landscapes to suggest the curve of the Earth. Hemispherical photography is used for various scientific purposes to study plant canopy geometry and to calculate near-ground solar radiation.  The first full-frame fisheye lens to be mass-produced was a 16 mm lens made by Nikon in the late 1960s. Digital cameras with APS-C sized sensors require a 10.5 mm lens to get the same effect as a 16 mm lens on a camera with full-frame sensor.

Talke Photography Settings:

• Camera:  Nikon D300
• Lens: Nikon 10.5 Fisheye f/2.8
• Setting: Aperture  Mode
• Focal Length: 10.5.0mm
• ISO: 200
• Exposure:  HDR 5 exposures (+2 to -2)
• Aperture:  f/20
• Gear:  Tripod, Cable release
• Post Process: Adobe CS4, Photomatix, Color Efex Pro, Viveza