We’re at the Daniel K. Inouye Airport in Honolulu, ready to return home. Luckily, it’s a direct flight.

I don’t remember this exact scene from three years ago, but I imagine there was a smallish concrete window with a view out to a parked plane. Using the fisheye has distorted the typically rectangular window into this bowed-out view. Notice also how the further away the object, the smaller the distortion. Thus, the plane looks relatively “normal.”

The trick is to get close to the subject and place the objects you want to distort in the periphery for maximum effect. Admittedly, fisheyes are a gimmicky effect by nature. I disliked them in the past, but I have now come to appreciate this optic’s fun and non-serious nature, especially after seeing all the examples in this series.

Regardless of your view on fisheye lenses, you must admit that they look different and add visual variety. Life is more than perfectly perspective-corrected images with precise framing. Note also the faint rainbow in the background. The curve of the rainbow is natural and not caused by the fisheye.

Blog readers, you’ll love my free monthly photography magazine. Signup for the free magazine to get articles and topics not discussed on the blog.