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<\/a><\/p>\nA fish-eye lens give a very wide angle of view but distorts the image to the side of the frame but, in an image like this, the distortion is not really noticeable – you would need to point it out to most people. This photo is of the Dutch Garden; I like this for the view it encompasses in one shot – normally I would need to use panoramic stitching techniques to get such a view. For this shot I am standing next to the topiary on the left and the pot of hyacinths on the right is very close. But it works…<\/p>\n
The wide view is useful for showing the inside of the glasshouses:<\/p>\n
This may not look as if it was taken with a fish-eye lens (apart from the curvature of the rear wall) but this view would not be possible without a very angle wide lens or by using stitching techniques. I think it looks quite natural and would probably puzzle people (non-photographers) who would try and replicate it without such equipment or techniques.<\/p>\n This one beautifully demonstrates the distortion these lenses produce:<\/p>\n But the amount of the room shown is quite staggering – you would need to be there to appreciate the fact.<\/p>\n I also tried some low viewpoint shots:<\/p>\n This shows polyanthus in one of the borders. The nearest flowers are only about a foot or so from the lens – I am pleased with the way this turned out. If I was doing it again I would turn the camera a little more to the left to reduce the amount of the path showing although I could crop this out.<\/p>\n Finally, one of my favourites:<\/p>\n This shows Clianthus in flower in the Mediterranean Garden. Again, I was only about a foot from the main part of the plant. Very little distortion is apparent in this view. I find the red flowers contrast will against the green foliage. I also find that blue sky with some fluffy clouds is better than a plain blue sky – although I prefer a plain blue sky to a dull overcast one!<\/p>\n The full set of photos can be seen in the EROV gallery<\/a> but they are not together, the gallery is organised by garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier this month we visited these gardens during public visiting hours; I took with me a fish-eye lens to try and get photos with a different perspective: A fish-eye lens give a very wide angle of view but distorts the image to the side of the frame but, in an image like this, the distortion … Continue reading “East Ruston Old Vicarage gardens – a fish-eye view”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n