Wide Angle in Tomorrowland

Craig

Craig

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Taken with the Tokina 11-16 DX that I rented for our trip. I will post more as I get them ready.
This is from one of the first days.
I felt that the extreme wide angle worked best for me in Tomorrowland. The funny angles that I wanted to get feel more natural in the finished photos from Tomorrowland.

This photo is iso 200(auto), 11mm, f4.8, and -.5 ev comp. Also, for those familiar with Nikon's new Picture Controls, this is with the new Landscape setting.

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Two more from the same night

Same settings except:
-monsters is -1 ev
-merchant, I used fill flash to illuminate the sign structure

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"mPower" said:
NICE! Will you be purchasing that lens?
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Thanks!
I liked the lens, but I am not going to buy it. I would rent it again, but it is a very specialzed lens!
 
Craig these are cool shots. I am looking forward to the others that you took with this.
 
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Thanks Poly!

I would love any feedback on these wide angle shots from everybody, good or bad.
Thanks!
 
I love shooting with the wide angle. I went to a renaissance festival and took only the 17-40 this weekend - got totally different images than I usually get with my 24-105. It's amazing what a different impression of an event you get from shooting f/9 at 17, as opposed to f/5.6 at 80mm. I especially like the portraits I take wide angle - totally different experience.
 
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I guess I would say my favorite is the last one, Merchant of Venus... the others kind of bother me with the askew angles.

It's a weird experience, when I first look at them briefly it looks good, it has an edge, an impact.. but when I look more I start seeing how all the lines are wrong, things are pointing in the wrong direction, and it starts to bother me.

Let me try to expand on that... it's the vertical structures, when they're not straight up and down that stands out to me. The funky retro futuristic architecture can stand a lot of distortion, since it's already real curvy and weird. But things like the rocket tower, the center spire, look really wrong to me when they're slanted. But for whatever reason I don't see it quite as much with the last shot. I'm guessing it's because you can see a bunch of the other elements of that tower, which are already at weird angles.

I'm not saying this is what you should do to these pictures, I'm not generally in favor of such major alterations, the pictures no longer convey reality, but I think if you were to edit the tower out of the other images they'd look more right to me. Removing the tower would remove the one vertical element that I would be counting on to be vertical.
 
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Thanks WDWfigment.

Thanks for your feedback Dan, I appreciate it. :) The lens definitely twists angles around if you let it. The funny thing is that, the merchant of Venus sign is pretty straight up and down in real life. I was holding the camera at an incredible angle to try to get the astro orbiter somewhat straight. I was also trying to get the merchant sign to point at the astro orbiter. It is also my favorite of the bunch, I went back to it a few nights later and took some at dusk to capture the colors I like at that time of day.

My intention of using the lens on my trip was to try and jam it into the scene, not just take big wide angle scenery shots. I leaned over fences and bushes the entire trip. I think this is why so many of my shots have different, strange perspectives.
At home, Dina has told me that she likes some of them, but many make her "dizzy" and just don't look right!
But, that was what I wanted, so her comments actually make me happy!
 
"Roger" said:
Dial to LV?
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Umm, the old fart 36 year old has not figured out how to hit the shutter every time in Live view!
So, I have not used it much. and I did not want to force Dina to wait for me even longer while I tried to figure it out in WDW! ;D
 
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"Craig" said:
how to hit the shutter every time in Live view!
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Live view was made for difficult to frame shots, such as over people's heads, over fences, etc.

Of course it shines with tripod shots at night, since you can zoom in and check focus beyond 1:1 (why, I have no idea...but 1:1 is good enough!)
 
another, taken on a different day.

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I really like the perspective of that first one Craig! The colors in both of them are wonderful!
 
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