Fisheye lenses have limited use, especially when doing landscapes, but once in a while I like to go over the edge and do something unexpected -- even outrageous. This is Horseshoe Bend just south of Page, Arizona, and because of the sharp gooseneck curvature of the Colorado River, it just seemed that a fisheye worked here. I used a 15mm Canon fisheye lens. Note that if you shoot a landscape or cityscape with a fisheye and the horizon is placed exactly in the center of the composition, it won't be curved. Only if the lens is angled downward or upward will you see the bizarre curvature. My settings here were 1/200, f/16, 500 ISO. I used a very small lens aperture because, even though fisheyes have phenomenal depth of field, the foreground rocks were about 18 inches from the camera and I wasn't sure that I'd have complete depth of field with a larger aperture.
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Oct 23, 2016, 12:32:56 PM
Jim - Absolutely true, Margaret. I was EXTREMELY uncomfortable at the edge of this horrifying -- yet beautiful -- abyss. Using a fisheye lens meant that I had to get closer to the edge than I wanted, but . . . you know, for the picture, I'll do almost anything. Almost.
Oct 23, 2016, 9:55:25 AM
Margaret Mullin Page - Yes, pretty outrageous, but what you did not mention is how outrageously dangerous it was for you to loom over the edge to get this shot!!