Lhasa fisheye photos

Jamie plays with his new lens

4 Sept - Lhasa 3650m

I meet agents, try to catch up on email etc, but perhaps I feel always busy in Lhasa because I take so many photos! Hopefully Lhasa relaxing for everyone else, this section to Base Camp is meant to be a holiday after all.

For a sightseeing change we visited Norbulingka, the summer palaces of the Dalai Lamas, for there are several spread among pleasant gardens.

Details - Jamie
(Not using the fisheye)

Jamie's new toy

I have a new fisheye lens (Canon 15mm) that Martin brought over from the USA, together with another toy we will meet later. Its field of view is 180 degrees diagonally, but that is not 180 degrees across the frame, although it is close. Even though it sees well under 180 degrees vertically you still have to be careful not to shoot your toes!

The standard advice with a fisheye is not to use it for too many shots, below I break that rule. I have already found it is extremely sensitive to slight changes of angle, in fact it is best to shoot using a level, or take particular care. A defining feature of Tibetan buildings is angled walls though, and charmingly not all lines are exactly straight - tricky shooting.

Cloudy Lhasa

Our stay was marked by grey clouds, sometimes amazing cloud formations, and some drizzle, again some tricky lighting conditions. I would love to be able to alter the white balance, ie the richen the colours or at least bring them back to natural, but as with all my pictures, they are straight from the camera, only because my laptop isn't powerful enough to run my favourite post-processing software, and the screen not good enough to judge the results accurately either. Most were shot at around 800 ISO and slightly too slow shutter speeds.

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