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Tag: wide angle

Posted on May 25, 2022May 25, 2022

How Big Is That Fish Eye, Really?

I only recently started to understand the specs for fisheye lenses.

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Posted on April 25, 2022September 10, 2022

Ride The Rails

The 7 PM freight just rolled through. So it should be safe enough to walk out there…

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Posted on April 5, 2022September 10, 2022

Street and Sky

Downtown with a 10mm ‘fisheye’ lens.

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Posted on February 6, 2022March 7, 2022

The Pergear 10mm Pancake Fisheye Lens

First, I have to say: I love the phrase “pancake fisheye”. It sounds like something at a lunch buffet in a Minnesota church basement.

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Posted on May 7, 2021February 23, 2022

Nicollet Island Railroad Bridge

Nicollet Island, in the Mississippi in the middle of Minneapolis, has a lot of history and there’s been a railroad bridge across it since 1867. It’s changed over those 150 years: steel girders in 1893, rebuilt in 1926, modified a couple of times since, but still in use.

From the south bank of the river – the downtown side.
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  • Water, Meet Ice
  • Hang It On A Cyberwall
  • Wide Eyed Downtown
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  • Woodpecker Portrait Session
  • The Northern Flicker
  • The Downy Woodpecker
  • Crazy Ice On The Creek
  • The Perfect Rose
  • Photography: What’s Left?
  • A Highway At Night
  • The Greatest Halloween House Ever
  • A Darker Minneapolis
  • Hover Flies: Pollinators In Disguise
  • On The Franklin Avenue Bridge
  • Stay Cool In The Skyways
  • In The Wind
  • The Rusty Patched bumble bee
  • A Hot Day Downtown
  • The Sleeping Queens
  • Dragonflies and Damselflies
  • Cycling Nowhere
  • How Big Is That Fish Eye, Really?
  • White Balance For Dummies – By A Dummy
  • Red-wings
  • Ride The Rails
  • The Great Blue Herons Are Back
  • The Cyclist
  • Street and Sky
  • Young Owls
  • Cardinals
  • The Perfect POD
  • Capture One and Lightroom: why I don’t like catalogs
  • SmugMug SEO and Google – An Epitaph
  • Birds In Winter
  • The Pergear 10mm Pancake Fisheye Lens
  • Why Is Facebook So Bad?
  • SmugMug: Where Photography Goes To Hide
  • Tuning Dials and Channel Knobs: Retro Tech
  • Why Does Duotoning Work?
  • ICC printer profiles: how does that work, exactly?
  • As Good As A Phone…?
  • Make Even More
  • An old Ford rusts peacefully in a farmer's field.A Ford’s Journey
  • Hummingbird Photography for Dummies
  • Smugmug and Google: The Taste of Failure
  • Downtown In The Rain
  • Protect your photos with an AIR GAP
  • Google Indexing: My Balloon Loses Air

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