Fun With Fish Eyes
Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 7:35PM 
Photograph ©2010 Alex Suárez. All rights reserved.
I had the pleasure of borrowing Tom Haymes’ new fisheye lens (AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED). Since he was visiting Austin, we walked over to the Capitol rotunda (the only round room I could think of at the time) to have ourselves some fun. I went to high school with both of these gentlemen in the early 80s where we studied photography. Tom and I also were roommates in college for several years. It’s good to get back together with old friends.
FYI--those portraits you see around the perimeter of the room are of former governors of Texas.
Thanks Tom, for letting me use your lens.
This is a very unflattering angle. It makes us look heavier than we are (we don’t need any help in that department) and it gives us double chins from looking down at the camera. I still think it’s a really fun shot.
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Reader Comments (3)
You did not lay your prescious camera on the floor!
I sure did. I centered the lens on the star on the floor.
Interesting angle :) I wish I had such a fish eye /wideangle lens. Might get the Tokina 12-24mm some day though.
Thanks for your DM on Twitter by the way. I've been unable to locate your comment on my site, I hope it didn't go into the spam folder cause then it has already been purged from the system :-( Well, feel free to stop by again some day!