The Tree Of Life, Fisheye Photography
by Felix Lai
Title
The Tree Of Life, Fisheye Photography
Artist
Felix Lai
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This photo captures a beautiful solitary tree using a fisheye lens. The fisheye lens helps to accentuate the beauty of the tree branches and tree trunk. It also helps to compress the surrounding to create a more compressed photo. In addition, the natural vignetting of the fisheye lens helps in framing the tree.
Tree Of Life
The tree of life is a widespread myth or archetype in the world's mythologies, related to the concept of sacred tree more generally, and hence in religious and philosophical tradition.
Fisheye Lens
A fisheye lens is an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image. Fisheye lenses achieve extremely wide angles of view. Instead of producing images with straight lines of perspective (rectilinear images), fisheye lenses use a special mapping (for example: equisolid angle), which gives images a characteristic convex non-rectilinear appearance.
The term fisheye was coined in 1906 by American physicist and inventor Robert W. Wood based on how a fish would see an ultrawide hemispherical view from beneath the water (a phenomenon known as Snell's window). Their first practical use was in the 1920s for use in meteorology to study cloud formation giving them the name "whole-sky lenses". The angle of view of a fisheye lens is usually between 100 and 180 degrees while the focal lengths depend on the film format they are designed for.
* Copyright Felix Lai. Watermark will not appear on final prints of the photograph.
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March 4th, 2018
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