Fisheye-Hemi Photoshop Plugin
I purchased the Fisheye-Hemi plugin Friday, and I’ve been having fun with it over the weekend. The basic concept is that it takes fisheye shots and stretches them to remove some of the “bubbled up in the middle” look that you get with a fisheye lens. Orcmid had told me about the rectilinear correction in Nikon’s Capture NX software, and I started looking around at options and decided to play with this one first.
Below are four examples. In each case, I’ve not cropped anything so that you can see the overall effect. You can see that it doesn’t remove 100% of the distortion, but it gets things closer to reality. An even better tool for this, from what I’ve seen, is DxO Optics Pro, but that’s $150 and the Fisheye-Hemi plugin is $29, so I decided to start there.
In the fourth shot (the bedroom of our new house), I used an option for a different type of lens, which results in over-correction. I kind of like the effect, though. The other three shots are riding the bus in San Francisco with Megan and Lynn, the skyline of Sao Paulo, and a building in Munich.
Fisheye photos as originally taken:
Corrected with the Fisheye-Hemi plugin:
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on January 20, 2008 at 10:34 pm Nic wrote:
Cool stuff. Which lens are you using for these?
on January 20, 2008 at 10:47 pm kip wrote:
Well seems like you always wanted a hemi! Ok not quite the same thing, but still….
on January 20, 2008 at 11:26 pm Doug wrote:
I’m using the Nikkor 10.5mm fisheye, Nic.
I’ve been playing around with over-correcting, ny new favorite effect. Here’s an overcorrected shot of Megan in Kenya, under the tree that was planted on the site where the Kenyan flag was first raised in 1963.