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13.01.2010
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Project 365: Poor Woman's Fisheye Lens

On day 10 of my Project 365 I took a photo of our kitchen. I don’t have a proper wide angle lens (yet) so I had to be creative. Here’s our white renovated kitchen from a special point of view.

Poor Woman's Fisheye

Speaking of wide angle lenses… I currently have a Nikon kit lens (18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR) with a widest angle of 76 degrees at 18mm. I would like to get a wider lens in the near future for interior and scenery photographs. I have a few options which fit into my strict budget. At the moment it’s quite difficult to say exactly which features I want or need so I have to go to test some lenses in a local store.

I’m not that into barrel effect so pure fisheye lenses are out of the question. Tokina has AT-X 107 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 lens which combines a fisheye and a super wide angle lenses into one. It offers angles from 180° to 100° but even at 17mm (100°) the barrel effect is visible. Tokina also has AT-X 116 11-16mm f/2.8 and AT-X 124 12-24mm f/4 wide angle lenses that have smaller distortion on the edges. Also Sigma has a 10-20mm f/4-5.6 wide angle but it loses to Tokina lenses in speed. Korean Samyang has the cheapest option: fully manual 14mm f/2.8 which offers great speed and slightly over 100° angle in DX format. Samyang lens was announced in August/September but the launch has been postponed a few times. It’s not available in stores yet.

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05.01.2010
Valokuvaus
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Project 365: 1 / 365

Picked up the film from development today and got the Project 365 rolling. Here’s photo for day 1 (January 3rd, 2010). It’s taken with Nikon EM film SLR camera using M42 mount Auto-Beroflex 28mm f/2.8 lens with adaptor. Scanned from a print as I’m having some quality issues when scanning film negatives with Canon 8800F. I’m not sure if it’s a user related or operating system (OS X 10.6) related problem.

Power lines

Nikon EM and Auto-Beroflex 28mm f/2.8 (M42 mount), shot on Fujifilm Superia 400

The print was totally green so I decreased the tones in Camera RAW after scanning. I kinda like the industrial feel of the photo. I’m collecting all the Project 365 photos into a Flickr set.

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04.01.2010
Valokuvaus
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Project 365: The Decision

I had already thought about it but browsing The Designed‘s post 20 Inspiring Project 365 Portfolios made me really want to try. I was going to start on 1st of January, I already took a photo that day, but then on 2nd of January I totally forgot to pick up my camera! It doesn’t matter which day you’ll start but of course it would be easier to keep track if you could finish the project at the end of the year.

It’s 4th of January and I’ve taken a photo each day except on the 2nd so I could set my project to start on 10/01/01 but I don’t want to play hooky right in the beginning.

Without thinking about it more, I’m setting my Project 365 to start on 3rd of January (yesterday). Overall learning (lighting, composing, techniques, photo enhancement) and trying new things will be my project objectives. I will try to do more than just snap shots each day but if I don’t find time for anything else, I will settle for one. Probably I won’t publish all my 365 photos on Sipping Designs but I will be posting them in Flickr. I’m tagging all related blog posts with Project 365 tag.

I will start posting photos tomorrow because my yesterday’s photo is still in development.

Sunset

This would have been my 1/365 on 1st of January (taken with Nikon D80 and Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR)

Project 365 is a year long project and the aim is to take one photo (straight out of the camera or manipulated) each day. There are no universally set rules but usually you are allowed to post the day’s photo afterwards (many things can delay the process) and it’s not death serious if you miss a day. The purpose is to learn something, not to cause nervous breakdowns. If you are interested in other people’s project, Flickr is a great place to start looking.

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