let's see em!

just doing some experiments, here is the first one:
c&c welcome:

I agree #2 is excellent!

good tip...
comes up every now and again...
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especially useful for hikers, never know if in an emergency you'll need to eat your beanbag, for survival!

that is a misconception for sure.
you should research how much film and money goes into getting 4 or 5 images out of a shoot for National Geographic.

but it is probably also true that out of those hundreds of images that got rejected, most were images any amateur would have ecstatic to have shot themselves.

if ever there was a reason to put a camera, radio remote, and solar charged battery into a floating camera blind and sit safely somewhere else occasionally setting down your cold beer to press the shutter button...., but that's me, I must be stoopid, just wade into disease, parasite ridden cesspool, and hope there's no crocs and the lions aren't hungry works also....


I should sell that guy my rc hovercraft I built, it'd be perfect for that job...

the pentax 10-17mm fisheye does have a built in hood....that happens to be threaded, so with a step down ring, my ringflash screws right on...

I found it on strobist, and he was using a rayflash or something, perhaps he had a little more space around his lens than I do with my ringflash, but she had her fingers on the inside of the flash right by the lens in his shot.. but you are litterally looking at the inside of the ringflash... it is vinetting, the white circle is the edge of the flash, and the background behind the cat is an underexposed kitchen window... everything outside the ring is actually the inside of the lens hood and inside of flash mount...
(the exposure, M, was f18, 1/125s, 100 iso.

kittys wiskers are cut off because they were outside the opening of the flash, it was a grab shot...

saw this idea earlier today and had to try it:
ringflash and fisheye:

glad it's ok, I try to never carry a tripod with camera attached.