Look Up, Look Down - fisheye in BA

[stubbsy]

Anyone who's seen my work would know I'm fond of the fisheye, but with the move to a full frame camera my 10.5 fisheye is to be retired. So for my Antarctic and Patagonia trip I added a 16mm f2.8 fisheye to my arsenal so I could take shots on my D700. Here are some of the results.

This first shot is taken inside the most unusual Burger King I've seen (more details HERE). Bottom floor is same old, same old Burger King, but the other 2 floors are preserved from the original neo-gothic former residence of the Elortondo Alvear family, constructed in 1880. First time I've gone to a burger joint to take photos instead of eat. This is a 2 shot HDR using images defished by DxO Optics (one of those images before being played with can be seen HERE for those who prefer a non HDR version)




Another neo-gothic wonder in Buenos Aires is Palacio Barolo. Inspired by Dante's "Divine Comedy" (the ground floor is hell and you rise up through purgatory to paradise as you traverse the floors) this is a functioning office building, but with the original architecture still intact (including a working full size lighthouse at the top). We did a night tour of the building, but day tours are available as well.

This is the view looking down from the second floor.



... and this is looking up from the ground floor




Finally - the view of Buenos Aires by night from the top of Palacio Barolo. The huge mass of people filling the roads at the bottom of the image is a giant (end extremely noisy) political rally for a presidential candidate in next year's elections. Pretty scary until we knew what it was - they were closing off surrounding intersections periodically and firing rockets into the air that exploded with so much noise they sounded like bombs exploding. Doubt they'd be legal here

[Murray Foote]

Great set of images. I particularly liked the first one and the third one.

Did you find a lot of use for the fisheye in Antarctica? I've got a 16mm f3.5 AI fisheye but I'm intending to take the 14-24mm.

[Alpha_7]

Great set of images. I particularly liked the first one and the third one.

Did you find a lot of use for the fisheye in Antarctica? I've got a 16mm f3.5 AI fisheye but I'm intending to take the 14-24mm.

Fisheye, particularly in buildings is one of Peter's specialty shots. Looking at his keeper statistics posted in the other thread he only kept 280 shots from it. I'm not sure how many he shot before culling. But it was certainly his least used lens (he took, he borrowed mine from time to time but didn't shoot much with them).

[stubbsy]

Great set of images. I particularly liked the first one and the third one.

Thanks

Did you find a lot of use for the fisheye in Antarctica? I've got a 16mm f3.5 AI fisheye but I'm intending to take the 14-24mm.

Here are 16mm fisheye usage stats from Lightroom - most usage was in Argentina NOT Antarctica. You can map the figures to where I took them by referring to the more detailed stats I included in my other trip post (HERE)



Not an essential lens by any means, but given its small size and light weight I'd not have left it behind.

[zafra52]

All I can say is Wow!

[aim54x]

Peter, looks like that 16mm has served you very well!

I know what you mean by the fisheye being so small and light that you find it hard to leave behind, I am very much the same with my Tokina 10-17 Fish. I thank you for tipping over the edge and buying a fisheye!

[FrankieP]

These are just fabulous, and what a great evening to have been shooting over the city with that rally going on below.. you can really get a sense of the energy in that image, and with the distortion it becomes even more the centre of the world that evening!

I've just bought a fisheye myself, the 10.5mm, so these shots are great to see and very inspiring!