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This Canon 15mm lens is amazing!!

Sadie

Sadie

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Chubs

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For my Birthday, Michele got me an unbelievable piece of Glass   The Canon 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens!!  If your not familiar with Fisheye lenses, they offer an extreme wide angle of view with a cool distortion effect added in with it.

Here are a few examples of what a Fisheye lens can do:

Sadie Girl

A Winter Wonderland

Pat's Van

Some really old cable and records

Inside the CXR at work

A dsx panele at work

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Focus stacking is 1 of those cool tricks that is used mostly in Macro Photography, but not exclusively    I have never tried it, but ran into a situation where I really wanted a larger Depth of field than the camera/ lens could produce.  So I took 2 shots with different focus points and combined the images in Photoshop using there stacking Script.

In the images below, check out the 2 distinct points of focus:

Image #1 - Notice the Focus on the Center Part

Image #2 - Notice the focus on the brown'sh parts

Now look at the Depth of field on this Focus Stacked Composite

Michele and I had the pleasure to attend the St. James Camera Club of Goshen, NY as a Guest speaker.

We did a presentation on HDR Photography and discussed the theory behind it with some examples.  Dick was nice enough to lend his awesome PC to do the PDF presentation on the projector   Thanks!  We then fallowed up the slideshow presentation with an actual live demonstration of how to take an HDR photograph. We all went from the activities room into the actual Church.  I then set up the tripod and took a bunch of exposure’s to capture all the dynamic range in the very dimly lit Church. I set the camera to manual mode, ISO 100, f/14, Average metering mode, 4 exposure’s.

Below are the 5 exposure’s I used as well as the final edited HDR Photograph

I also wanted to thank everybody from the Club for being so kind  and warm to us.  A special thanks to Renee for inviting us to speak

Fully edited HDR composite

Here are the 3 raw exposure’s I used for the HDR composite above:

f/14 @ 25 seconds

f/14 @ 6 seconds

f/14 @ 1.6 seconds