I finally broke down and bought what people are calling the “Oreo Cookie” lens. (So-called because the front of the lens is designed to look like and Oreo cookie.) The lens is fixed focus, all plastic, very inexpensive, and supposedly is reclaimed from disposable single-use cameras. So we are talking very primitive. But that is what makes it fun! I tried it out yesterday for the first time at a outdoor craft fair in the Beaches here in Toronto on my Sony a7ii.
This building in Mississauga, Ontario has fascinating architecture! Very fisheye lens-friendly!
All images taken with a Sony a6100 body and Bower 7.5mm fisheye lens (mounted via adapter).
Yesterday morning I was at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga, Ontario. Great architecture, and and great light coming in! Images created with Sony a6100 body and 27mm lesn as well as a 7.5 mm fisheye lens.
Yesterday morning I was out with friends in the WIlliamson Park Ravine in the eastern part of Toronto. The tree canopy is quite dense here, but sunlight will poke through the shadows creating an almost spotlight effect. All images taken with my Sony a7ii body and an old Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens.
More images from my recent Bon Echo trip, but this time using the Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5 Superwide Heliar lens.
The new north building at the St. Lawrence Market is crammed and busy on the weekends. But in the middle of the week it is quiet.
One of the lenses I took to Bon Echo Park here in Ontario last weekend was my Lomography 55mm f/1.7 Mark II Petzval.
I had a kind of image in mind, and the distortions inherent in the Petzval lens, plus added deep vignette gave me what I was looking for.
Last weekend was “Doors Open” in Toronto. Many buildings opened their doors to visitors, and I one of the places I checked out was Beach United in the Beaches. I was using my Sony A7ii and 15mm Voiglander super wide angle lens.
It was quite cloudy last Wednesday, but that kind of light is great for flower images. Both images taken with my Sony A7ii and 28-75mm f/2.8 Tamron lens.
Yesterday morning I was out for my usual Wednesday Gang photo walk. I got a couple of portraits I really like: one of a stranger in a coffee shop, the other one of the other photographers on the walk. Very different images but they both work for me.
Both images were taken with my Sony a7ii and 28-75mm Tamron lens.
My Third Eye 