Two Fishy Cathedrals

Seeing what the 10-17mm fisheye could do to shape and form in a couple of cathedrals. First two are Norwich with the K3, last two are Ripon with the K3iii. All hand held and the best of several attempts to get alignment right(-ish) and no people mucking up the view. Best seen large with a dark background.

The big copper vat in Norwich Cathedral is the font. It came from a chocolate factory where it was used to make chocolate. And yes, there is a fisheye-distorted image of a curved-surface-distorted image of the photographer in the base of the vat-font.

Thoughts, comments welcome as usual.

1. Norwich



2. Norwich



3. Ripon



4. Ripon



Steve

These are epic!!!

Don't you love fisheyes

Fisheye shots have a certain novelty appeal because they aren't the norm and because they give a different distorted view of familiar subjects - this little set aren't the usual (although the subject matter is a popular one for fisheyes), a lot of thought has gone into getting the composition so good. No.2 has a nice symmetry and interest from foreground to background, making great use of the "props". No.4 is my favourite - the clever positioning has produced beautiful opposing curves and the nicely framed archway as the destination for the well trodden steps - I suspect this would look great as a mono too!

Excellent shooting Steve

I agree with comments above, number 4 is my favourite for all the reasons that Mr Bloke said.

Thanks folks. It was a toss up whether to take the fisheye or the Tamron 10-24mm for very wide angle shots. I'm now glad that the fisheye won .

Getting the stairs shot was interesting. The 16-85mm was on the camera while going round the cathedral with Mrs L and daughter. I spotted the possibility of a fisheye shot but had to keep moving to keep up with the others. After 'doing' the building, the ladies took a pew to recover from their exertions and unexpectedly didn't object to me wandering off on my own for a while. As it turned out, there was only one way to take the stairs without including the barrier on the bottom step that was blocking entry. And that's the shot that's posted here.

Steve

I am really liking the staircase.

+1

Cheers
Mike

A good set.

Lift the shadows in Number 4 and then that would be my favourite.

Cheers.
Philip

I agree. Something like this ?

Yes, that's another valid take on the stairs picture. In fact, it's very similar to another, longer exposure, shot I took but which eventually lost out to the darker one because of the way the light at the top of the stairs and the windows draw you up and eventually off the stairs into the heights of the cathedral (well, that's what happens with me anyway :wink. As ever, there's no right and wrong in matters of photographic taste - which all helps to make life so interesting .

Steve