Camera Buffs: Fisheye effect without lens?

[Ryan L.]

Hey guys...

So I pulled up to a stoplight the other day and next to me was a big rig with the circular hub caps on his wheels producing kind of a fish eye effect. Man did the Jeep look good like that. But I was wondering if there was software or one of you guys could give a picture the fish eye effect without having a fish eye lens?

Just wondering..

Ryan

[BlueZero]

Re: Camera Buffs: Fisheye effect without lens?

I was wondering if there was software or one of you guys could give a picture the fish eye effect without having a fish eye lens?

Yes, but not as good as having the right lens.

A google search found this... http://www.ozzu.com/digital-art-foru...op-t63879.html

I am redoing my computer at home but should have photoshop installed this weekend. I will check it out for you.

[roushstage2]

Re: Camera Buffs: Fisheye effect without lens?

Off hand: In Photoshop, you can use Lens Correction and Spherize. There may be better ways, never tried it.

[C5_C.J.]

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What kind of camera do you have? They make relatively cheap lens filters that will distort any lens to a simple fish eye.

[Ryan L.]

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Its a Canon PowerShot S2 IS. I don't have Photoshop but I would be willing to send a picture when i get one to somebody .

Ryan

[roushstage2]

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Soooo...what are you saying? You want Photoshop or you want me to mess around with it?

[Ryan L.]

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Hmmm...I guess I'll just come out and say it. I want somebody else to mess around with it. I need to take a good picture first, hopefully with my friends big 10mp camera.

Ryan

[RamAirV1]

Re: Camera Buffs: Fisheye effect without lens?

Hmmm...I guess I'll just come out and say it. I want somebody else to mess around with it. I need to take a good picture first, hopefully with my friends big 10mp camera.

Ryan

If they have a DSLR there are some nice fisheye lenses. For example, Nikon has a nice 10mm fisheye for its DSLRs.

RamAirV1

[Nappers]

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Ryan, I have Photoshop Elements 4.0 with the spherize effect, tried it on picture of my Neon but didn't have the right size. Send me a picture and see what I can do.

Funny you mentioned all of this, as I drive by Semi's with shiny center caps, I look at the cars and think that would be a cool picture. LOL

Aaron

[roushstage2]

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I want a picture of my car behind a gas hauler. Those rounded backs on them make the cars look really cool, especially when the trailers are all polished up!

[Nappers]

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I agree, I thought I was sick! LOL

I also use the trucks like that to check my DRL's, I hate it when I see every other Chevy/GMC truck/suv with one or both DRL's burned out. They figured out it was a too hot bulb and replaced them after a while but I still check

Aaron

[Hemin8r]

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I want a picture of my car behind a gas hauler. Those rounded backs on them make the cars look really cool, especially when the trailers are all polished up!

Lol! I do the same with the gas haulers. It makes my car look wider which makes it almost look like the front end of a Viper.

[rescuenut10]

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I just tried the spherize effect in Photoshop Cs with a photo of a 67 Vette. It gave a really neat fisheye effect.

[roushstage2]

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Lol! I do the same with the gas haulers. It makes my car look wider which makes it almost look like the front end of a Viper.

The trick is buying the Viper emblem. Talked my friend into it when he had an SRT4 and it looked sweet!

[TXShine]

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Ryan, I can give it a shot for ya.

FWIW, in my experience not all pictures turn out great when transforming them with a fisheye effect, nothing like doing them with a real fisheye lens.

Here's an example of the effect applied to a picture of a bicycle.

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The percentage of bend can be adjusted, I believe this was a 100%.