Hoover Dam in Fisheye – Arizona

I purchased the TTArtisans 11mm Fisheye lens for the Fujifilm GFX before my Hawaii trip in 2022. While I featured images from that lens on my free monthly magazine, this is the first time I’m talking about the lens on this blog. I may still show fisheye pictures from Hawaii, but today, we have the dramatic Hoover Dam. In fact, I brought this lens specifically for the dam, figuring the ultra-wide angle would capture the entirety of the giant structure.

The TTArtisan 11mm fisheye is a well-built all-metal manual focus lens. I don’t know the focal length shown in these photos. The 11mm equivalent should appear on the GFX as 8.58mm with a 0.78 crop factor. However, I cropped the pictures in post-processing to remove the circular vignettes.

Hoover Dam spans Nevada and Arizona. This photo shows the inlet tower on the Arizona side, resembling a Nevada tower mirror image. Interestingly, Nevada was one hour earlier than Arizona, so you can “time travel” by walking a few feet across the state border.

I shot all three photos from the top of the dam. This picture of the water fountain looks downriver, on the opposite side of the first photo. Super-wide angles exaggerate the distance between objects, so I’m pretty close to the water fountain, so much so that I could see my shadow in the picture, which I removed.

We can see the entirety of the southwestern side of the dam from this vantage point, including the concrete structure, the spillway, the Colorado River, and the Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge I featured yesterday.

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