As some of you know, I recently ordered a Zenitar 16mm fisheye which promptly arrived in one province while I was away in another. Oh the torture! Well, I arrived on Saturday, and tore open the box as soon as I could. I spent a little while peering through the viewfinder at things around the living room, but saved the actual taking of pictures for daylight. The weather forecast for Sunday was awful, but it obliged with a dramatically stormy sky and the occasional rainbow (not nice enough to shoot, just fragments) so I went out to test drive the new lens.
First stop was Cranewood, the university (Mount Allison) president's residence. I figured it would look imposing shot through the fence from a low angle. It turned out not bad, considering the funny light.
Then out to High Marsh Road, and a couple views of the local covered bridge.
Facing the other way from the bridge, the sky was in the process of doing dramatic things over the marshland. I rather like the curved horizon in this one, but one of these days I'll have to find out about "de-fishing" software.
We had stopped on our way to a nearby eatery for breakfast to take these pictures (hubby knew I would probably explode if I didn't get to try the lens out!) and on the way back, the light was still doing interesting things. The bridge is out of the frame off to the left of this view.
None of these are great art, but the lens does do some rather cool things with the big skies we have here. I'm looking forward to playing some more. At least now I can stop twitching.
Julie