The Arch

Just behind the arch at elphinstone reef, my buddy Randy was waiting

for me to catch up

Jaap:

Very nice image. I  like the blue gradations a lot, but there appears to be a bit of lines in the lightest blue part of the image. I am sure that it is some sort of artifact of making tiny photos though. How do you like the sigma 15 on the D800? Many of my friends are trying to figure out the best WA lens for the new Niikon full frames.

Happy holidays

Bill

Thanks!

The gradient is much smoother indeed on the full-size original. Resizing and lowering the jpeg quality seems to make it more harsh.

I was doubting a lot between the sigma 15mm and the nikon 16mm fisheye lenses. The sigma won, because it focuses closer than the nikon.

For underwater the fisheyes are great, you can get very close and still have everything in the shot. For topside I think a fisheye is much harder to work with since the distortion becomes much more noticeable.

merry christmas!

jaap