Princeton Photos

[CowbellGuy]

Photos from the Princeton game, or Loitering With a Fisheye, now available.

http://www.elynah.com/?photob&id=349

[Larry72]

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Which lens are you using?

 I really like your "Loitering with a Fisheye" title. Super wide-angle sports photography is only for the very patient!!  However, I think there are a couple of potential fabulous images in there.  Not from that game (one that most are still putting out of their minds), but the concept.

 It might take a whole season or several to get them, but there will be a moment with the team from right behind the bench during a timeout and another just after the "right" Cornell score from above that could be definite keepers!!

Good luck!

Larry '72

[CowbellGuy]

Thanks, Larry. It's Nikon's 10.5mm DX Fisheye. Made for, and only works with, the DX (2/3 size) digital sensors. So it's about a 16mm full-frame equivalent. It's effectively the most advanced fisheye anyone's made. It has two separate focusing elements, so it works equally well both close and far, and they do mean close. You can focus about 3 inches in front of the lens.

Technically, I don't think fisheyes aren't considered super wide-angle since there's distortion, but there's a very impressive filter that yields very nice results that I'll probably pick up soon. Generally, you want to get as close to your subject as possible with a fisheye, not do big panoramas, which my 17-35 doesn't really work for on a DX sensor. It's not what I got the lens for, but I thought I'd try it out anyway.

I was thinking the same thing you are. I brought my tiny tripod and my camera's remote trigger. I was thinking I might be able to set it up on the roof of the press box before the game, but I forgot that they got rid of the roof when it was moved. Also higher up than I remembered. Oh well. Maybe I can find something to clamp it to.