Plan + Final Piece (1)

For my first final piece I plan to create a very vibrant, unique and visually satisfying image. I also intend to use editing techniques/options such as overlaying, colour enhancing, tweaking and other general settings in order to achieve the best possible outcome. Here are the photos:

To achieve these pictures, I used two photos and essentially merged them together with a transparent effect (Overlay). 

Here are the original photos (from which I picked the one below):

I really liked these photos of the lights because of how they come out on the camera. The bubbly/dotty effect is also known as 'Bokeh'. Bokeh is the Japanese term for the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out of focus parts of an image produced by the lens.

As you can see, I had quite a selection to choose from and ended picking the one shown.

Here is the original photo for the sky part of the photo:

Fish Eye lens experiment

What is a Fish eye lens?

A fisheye lens is a special type of ultra-wide angle lens. They are small, Ultra-wide, and show a distorted, spherical view of the world, most evident in the curved, outer corners of the photo.

Surprisingly, they work very well underwater. This is because they focus very closely, there are few straight lines underwater, and finally, because of how close you can get to objects; you can capture more sharpness than you would from a mediocre lens.

Below is my own photograph of the landscape whilst using a fish eye lense. I captured the sun in the background which is the main subject within the image, bringing light in the centre. In addition to that, it gives the image a great colour  change from the centre to the borders. The fish eye lens gives the photograph a wide angle with strong visual distortion.

Here are some examples I found online, showing the comparison between a normal photo and fish eye. There were shot with a Tokina 10-17mm fisheye and Sigma 10-20mm.



(Not Fish eye)



(Fish eye)

As you can see, the subject is in the centre of the image in both photographs, looking relatively identical, until you move to the borders where the edges become 'wider' and subject smaller.

Properties of a Fish eye lens:

• They are small and compact
• You can get very close to objects, for maximum sharpness and colour
• Large depth of field, which is great for shooting from a very wide angle

Below I have increased the vibrance but decreased the saturation. 

Here is the image, with all colour wiped from the picture. I like it, however I prefer the colour as it gives the image more character rather than a mono colour scheme.