Swirling Miasma

I came across a striking series of photos from Route 66 by Ken Rockwell[2]:

Route 66 Photos by Ken Rockwell

Maybe the series is a little heavy on fisheye shots, but it’s nice nonetheless. And Rockwell also passes on the following useful advice for using wide lenses:

“Position is critical to using ultra wide lenses. You have to force yourself to get dangerously and annoyingly close to your subjects and pay rapt attention to your viewfinder. It is also critical to hold the camera level. It took several tries to get the baseline horizontal. You can fix minor Dutch (crooked horizons) in Photoshop, but you cannot correct point of view if you didn’t get close enough.”

1) And your painfully uncreative post title.

2) Link via nickbaum.com.

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