Pylons

rpstewart · 9 Apr 2006 at 19:07

I've been meaning to try this shot for a while and finally found a pylon that was reasonable accessible so here goes.

A different perspective on things.

The second one was taken with my new toy - a Peleng 8mm fisheye. It's a strange beast, fully manual for a start and the angle of view makes avoiding photographing your own feet tricky!

And finally seeing how the HDR shots from the weekend weren't up to much it'll have to be IR instead.

One thing I noticed taking the IR shot - I'm trying out having the camera setup to focus on the * button rather than the shutter. Doing it this way makes IR a lot easier, you don't have to worry about setting the lens to MF after attaching the filter. Having the 50mm 1.8 in AF makes attaching the filter far easier, in MF the lens goes slack so you tend to knock it out of focus just putting the filter on.

hoodmeister · 9 Apr 2006 at 19:18

All nice shots

Although Pylons can be damn ugly, I often find I rather like them... Great stuff.

I've been uhming and aaahing over getting a Peleng for a while now. Still not sure how much practical use i'd get out of it

rpstewart · 9 Apr 2006 at 19:40

hoodmeister said:
I've been uhming and aaahing over getting a Peleng for a while now. Still not sure how much practical use i'd get out of it

If it's to go on the D70 mentioned on your deviantart page I'd have a good check about on the web - there are a lot of reports of the Peleng fouling some Nikon mirrors when set to infinity focus.

Gamefreak501 · 9 Apr 2006 at 20:09

Wow - great pictures - you managed to make an ugly structure look really nice!

As for the Infra-red shot, that looks great, I have not successfully taken any good enough infra-red pictures yet - they look so horrible!

SDK^ · 9 Apr 2006 at 20:21

Nice shot - is that straight from the camera or did you mirror it ?

hoodmeister · 9 Apr 2006 at 20:36

rpstewart said:
If it's to go on the D70 mentioned on your deviantart page I'd have a good check about on the web - there are a lot of reports of the Peleng fouling some Nikon mirrors when set to infinity focus.

One of the reasons I've been uhhmiing and aahhing.
It's really hard to get any difinitive answer on it - there are several charts about showing "compatibility" (which mirrors the rear element will thwack and which it won't)... But some show the D70 as being OK, and others not.
Having said that, I do know of a couple of people who use them with their D70's ~ but I've no idea how much leeway there is, and this is the sort of lens that could easily vary that important little bit from copy to copy :/

Still, looks good fun. I look forward to seeing what else you do with it!

rpstewart · 9 Apr 2006 at 20:43

SDK^ said:
Nice shot - is that straight from the camera or did you mirror it ?

The first one? Straight from the camera bar a slight rotation to square up the wires, then the crop and frame.

quadboi · 9 Apr 2006 at 20:44

Those pictures are ace, especially first.

scoop · 18 Apr 2006 at 13:12

Liking them lots......the fisheye one is cool, sespite all my mickey-taking about the lens in the first place.

themask70 · 18 Apr 2006 at 17:16

Love it, great 'original' idea!!!