From the course: Photography Foundations: Specialty Lenses
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Correcting tone in fisheye images - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Specialty Lenses
Correcting tone in fisheye images
If you choose to shoot with the fisheye or ultra-wide angle lens, it's because you're going for a particular look, and so you probably expect a certain amount of distortion and strange final results. This is about as strange as you're going to get with the fisheye. This is the Canon 8215-mm fisheye used on a 5D. So it's a full-frame camera, and the fisheye can't cover the whole sensor, so I've got all this black around here. So it's not real practical on this camera. This lens makes a little more sense on a cropped sensor camera. Still, I really like the extreme fisheye distortion that you get here. That said, it is a little bit annoying that these lines up here that are so plainly supposed to be straight or curved, it makes the effect of the lens a little too obvious. Granted, the stringy arms are going to be obvious no matter what, but still, is it possible to correct some of the distortion and still have a nice wide-angle stylized look? Yes it is, and in Photoshop CS6, it's very…
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