Home»Flickr Meetup 8-10

The Flickr group pdx [portland] has had an annual August meetup at Laurelhurst Park in Portland Oregon for a few years. Last year this meetup was well attended, but this year there were only a few people that came to the park meetup. Because the weather was perfect for scenic photography I arrived early and shot the landscape photos that accompany the group pictures. These photos were shot with a Nikon D700 fitted with two different lenses, either a Nikkor 16mm f/2.8D Full Frame Fisheye or a Sigma 8mm f3.5 EX-DG Circular Fisheye. All of the horizontal landscape shots were taken with the 16mm fisheye lens, which produces significant barrel distortion. This type of distortion causes vertical lines (like tree trunks) to appear dramatically curved in the original photos. As you look through the photos you will notice that the trees in the wide landscape shots are straight and natural looking. A Photoshop plug-in called Fisheye-Hemi was used to correct almost all of this distortion, and the Edit>Transform>Warp tool was used to make some final tweaks. The original group of six photos that were used to make the pictures who's names end with B-01 and D-01 were shot hand-held using the D700's Bracketed Exposure function and processed in PhotomatixPro to create these two HDR images.