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Everyone should have heard of fisheye lenses, they are used to capture wide scenery and objects into the frame. The results are often very nice and attractive, thus it is one of the popular lenses in both photography and videography.

However, most fisheye lens don’t come with a cheap price, they are around RM1000 or above. With this expensive price, not all people manage to get fun of it.

Recently, I found a trick on the internet, it turns the wide angle adapter, which costs around RM150-RM200, to a fisheye adapter. I know you can get the commercial fisheye adapter directly, which costs around RM400, if you could afford that, by all means please go for it as it delivers a better “FishyEye” results. I didn’t plan to spend so much on this thing, so I just got myself a wide angle adapter for RM150 and start modifying to add the Fishy effects. Here are the steps on how I did it.

First, you need a wide angle adapter (of course), and a small flat head screw driver.

Notice that there are 2 dents on the side of the adapter, that is the ring to lock the glass element of the adapter. Use the screw driver and turn the ring in anti-clockwise till u got the ring come out totally.

Now you can see that I have completely taken out the ring.

Take out the glass element and clean it.

Flip the glass element overside and put it back to the adapter.

Now you need to put back the ring so that the glass element wouldn’t fall out.

And there you got.. A FishEye adapter.

Now go get some fun with it.

Here are the photos I have shot with and without the adapter.

Without the Adapter, Lens at 18mm

With the Adapter, Lens at 18mm

As you all might have noticed, the edges are blurred out. The only area that is in sharp focus is the center. This might not be as good as those real FishEye lenses, but heck, it is cheap.. lol.

Try it with different type lenses and you might get some interesting results !!

Finally, Canon has published the winning photos of the Canon Photomarathon Malaysia.

The are 2 categories, DSLR and Compact Camera, each of the category has 6 winners,

the Best of Show 1st, 2nd and 3d, and the Best of Theme of the 3 themes, which are Indulge Metropolitan, Mess in Rules and Goes Green.

Compact Category

Best Of Show

1st

2nd

3rd

Best Of Theme

1) Indulge Metropolitan

2a) Mess In Rules

2b) Mess In Rules

3) Goes Green

DSLR Category

Best Of Show

1st

2nd

3rd

Best Of Theme

1) Indulge Metropolitan

2a) Mess In Rules

3) Goes Green

okay, here are the photos, you guys be the judge.

Canon Photomarathon 2008 Malaysia, photography + slightly marathon.

Organized by Canon. Participants need to submit 3 photos of each themes at the end of the event.

The themes for this year were,

1) Indulge Metropolitan
2) Mess in Rules
3) Goes in Green

my entries,

1)

Indulge, the guy is enjoying taking a photo of a car that is shown on the main entrance of the complex.
That’s the best i can get from this theme.

2)

Rules, they are actually few rules set inside the photo,

i) Red shirts vs 1 small blue shirt child
ii) Red shirts photographers, blue shirt child is the subject

the messiness, one of the red shirt lying down and the subject wonder what happened, the others red shirts were laughing.

however, from the winning photo, looks like i got the them interpreted completed different, which i lol’ed.

3)

My blood is green and my hand grows a vegetable,
that’s it goes green. lol.

seriously, it is way too subjective.. but after looking at the winning photos of these 3 themes, i still lol’ed.

Of course i will update with the Winning Photos selected by the judges. You guys will be the judges then.

Will join again next year ??

Of course, but i will just get a point and shoot canon camera and grab the freebies.. then go back home blow air-cond.

Sunset in Melaka

This time, Dave Ming Cheng show me their shopping complex.. wow.. it looks exactly like the one we have on planet Earth, just that it is way smaller..they go for movies too you know..lol

I didn’t bring my D40 with me this time, luckily my cellphone got a tiny camera..

hahaha.. I don’t where he will take me next time..