Starting on the Megaliths exhibit

rybolt

Itinerant picture taker
Location
Yellow Springs, Ohio USA
Name
Paul Rybolt
It's taken me almost 11 months to get started but I'm beginning to print pictures for an exhibit of Irish megalithic sites. I'm a big fan of Paul Caponigro's Megaliths work and the style he used. Here are a couple of the pictures.
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Thanks for the comments. I'll post more as I get them done. This project is actually two parts. The first is the megaliths and the second is the shrines, holy wells and burial grounds of Ireland. What I'm finding is that I prefer the megaliths in black and white and the other parts in color. I just need to figure out how they can mesh without being too jarring in contrast.
 
This picture is not really part of the megaliths project though it was done while walking to one of the sites. I thought it was fun for two reasons. First: it shows that you CAN go overboard in processing and it can happen very quickly. Second, it shows that an 8mm fisheye on a Fuji APS-C camera doesn't necessarily have to have a lot of distortion.
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This picture is not really part of the megaliths project though it was done while walking to one of the sites. I thought it was fun for two reasons. First: it shows that you CAN go overboard in processing and it can happen very quickly. Second, it shows that an 8mm fisheye on a Fuji APS-C camera doesn't necessarily have to have a lot of distortion.
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I would say that's not too far overboard, probably a short swim back to safety! Nice shot and you're right about the fisheye. My only experience of using a fisheye lens was on the Pentax Q and that was just horrible. This looks very natural by comparison.
 
Thanks! The Rokinon/Samyang/Bower 8mm lens for the Fuji X cameras is a full frame fisheye but it has some sort of optical correction built in that really works if you hold it level. Like all fisheyes, it can be overused but once in a while it's fun to play around with.
 
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