(I have posted this earlier at DPR - it may be of some interest to some here as well) Background: From time to time I get seduced by great wide, or extreme wide, angle pictures. They often look great but they can also be kinda stereotypes, they are all scenery shots, or they are close and up to flowers, or they... well, you know. Another thing is that sometimes the bokeh is bad or half bad, or that everything is sharp.
Inspiration: I got some inspiration from another forum where a guy showed a couple of pictures of his car. He used a pano technique to get shallow DOF.
Sculpture Park: At a place 80 km north of where I live they have setup an open air sculpture exhibition. Some of these sculptures are really great work. I liked several of them. A black one is placed in a way that gave me severe problems getting a decent picture. As it is of some volume I decided to try to make a mosaic.
Zenitar?: The super wides angle lenses that are available for us pentax people are the Peleng 8mm FE, the Zenitar 16mm FE, the SMCP DA10-17 FE, DA12-24 and DA14. Then there are a few more older lenses as well. The Zenitar is reasonably good, cheap and wide.
Here is the black sculpture:
K10D, Zenitar16/2.8FE at f/2.8
As you can see we do not get much of blur in the background. The sculpture never really gets isolated from the environment. This can be good or bad. The whole sculpture also doesn't fit. Even with the Zenitar it was impossible to back up to get the whole thing.
Super Shallow DOF Mosaic: Time to try the pano technique! Picture in the next post.
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