It was gonna be awesome, however, I didn't save hard enough and in the end, I could not go.
However the money I had saved up was now free for me to spend, so what better to do than to cheer myself up with some retail therapy.
I headed to my favourite Photo store online and bought myself a new fun lens and a flash ring adaptor for my Nikon SB900s
What lens did i get?
A Nikkor 10.5mm Fisheye. What a cool lens this is too.
So much fun, the reason i wanted this lens and the Ray Flash Ring adaptor?
To play with the "Jarvie Window" effect.
"Whats that???" I hear you cry,
THIS is the Jarvie window........
I love this effect.
My friend and mentor Jimmy Beltz of phototips.biz fame calls the technique "The Ultimate party Pics" and I think he's right.
A bunch of kids in one room, all pulling faces and you can get a bunch of consistent images of each kid, really fast and easy.
I took a bunch of my friend Claire, and it was great fun.
These are some of the images from my first attempt at this technique.....
This is fast becoming a second favourite lens in my kit bag.
Its not great enough to surpass my 24-70mm f2.8 Nikon lens, thats still my baby and my go to lens for most portrait stuff, but I've seen some fantastic uses for the fisheye to give interesting cool looking images, not just for the "Ultimate Party Pics".
I hope to have more fun with this lens in the future, but for now, I hope you like the first attempt images I have shown here for you all.
I expect more will follow another time in the future.
"You keep pulling silly faces and I'll keep shooting until the wind changes" - Andy Comber
