{"id":3883,"date":"2014-10-06T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T14:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2014-10-06T14:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T14:43:06","slug":"garden-photos-using-a-fish-eye-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3883","title":{"rendered":"Garden photos using a fish-eye lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

For our own interest, I take photos of our garden every month as a record of our progress and the changes we make – I have been doing this for about 20 years and 3 different properties. This year I have been making use of a fish-eye lens that I purchased earlier in the year:<\/p>\n

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In an image like this, the distortion produced by a fish-eye lens isn’t too noticeable – most people wouldn’t see anything amiss with such an image (although gardeners would be aghast at the weeds – my excuse is that I have had a busy August and September and weeding has had to stop. I have made a start again though…)<\/p>\n

However, when you have man-made structures in the garden, such as sheds and houses, the distortion is very noticeable:<\/p>\n

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You can see the corners of the house and shed are curved. My panorama stitching software can fix this but it needs a minimum of two images – you can’t stitch just one photo! I get around this by taking two similar photos with a lot of overlap and stitch these together:<\/p>\n

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Now the buildings are straighter. Its a pity it is so cloudy but autumn is upon us…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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