A Fisheye lens is a ultra-wide angle lens that shows a distorted photograph and gives a circle or sphere like shape to the photograph to enhance its texture and shape.
There are many reasons to use a Fisheye Lens, these are some examples:
· They focus closely to the subject or focal point well
· Good for underwater photography (fish, plants, reefs etc.)
· Using wide lenses can bring you close to the subject which can improve sharpness
A fisheye lens is good for certain types of photographs like:
· Reef shots
· Underwater shots
· Wildlife
· Landscape
· It’s rarely used, but some photographers use Fisheye for portraits to enhance the subjects shape, and features.
Here is an example of a Fisheye lens that was used in this photo.
I personally like the fisheye lens because I like the rounded affect which gives it shape and makes it look more interesting.
Wide-Angle Lens:
A Wide-Angle lens is used to exaggerate a photograph’s length or depth. This type of lens is used to still focus on the subject, but to add the depth of either its background, or the subject its self. Wide-Angle lenses work great with wide landscapes, it can give a deeper look if the landscape is dragging out of the photograph.
Photographers use wide-angle lenses for dragging out photographs or adding depth. Here is an example of a photograph taken with a wide-angle lens:
There are many reasons for using a wide-angle lens, it can give certain qualities like:
· Increasing your Depth of Field
· A Wide-Angle lens can give you room to take your photograph, the wider lens settings make your photo look fitted without having to crop because of its widening effect
· Creates a distorted and wide angled look to the photograph to exaggerate the subject or background or landscape.
I personally think that wide-angle photographs definitely give a dragged look which I like because I think it brings the photograph off the paper, not exactly in 3-D but it doesn’t make it look flat.
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