First film, first lessons
When I got out of the camera shop the other day, there was a chair conveniently located in the hall in front of the door. I don't know if it was for the comic shop, the manicure booth or the camera store all sharing the hallway, but I found it very useful to sit down and feverishly open my first film.
The first time flipping through my pictures I learnt a few lessons, which I will share with you, dear readers. Please be considerate with my inexperience, and learn with me the intricacy of the fisheye technology. Today's class will be focused on outdoors pictures.
Lesson #1: This is a super-duper-wide angle
Doesn't this monster look tiny? Well it's not. It's big, fat, sparkling and polluting, but from 40cm away it looks like I'm in the other side of the parking lot.
Lesson #2: My Kodak MAX 400 ASA honors blue skies
That's good to know. The rest of the scene is kind of washed out, but it gives a certain style. I like the power cables all branching out.
Side Note: Please diregard the accidental black dot in the sky, I sometimes can't control myself with a virtual paintbrush in hand. I was too lazy to start over after I saved the jpg and closed the photoshop file.
Lesson #3: Take advantage of the straight lines on the sides of the scene
They will become curvy. If the subject is too far away, then it will be just a normal picture in a round frame.
Lesson #4: Night shots: watch out for the noise
I guess this is due to the fact that I have no control over the exposition time, but darker scenes have a dangerous tendency to have a lot of noise on dark areas. Thankfully photoshop is there to help, but on the paper version it's mostly gray around the colorful center.
That will be all for today. I hope you enjoyed your first fisheye class. We'll be back soon with some more topics on this first film.
