20140105 Orlando, FL with Ultra-wide-angle Lens
To give you an idea of how wide the angle of view of my UWA lens is relative to a “normal” lens, I created this diagram. The “normal” central angle of view of the human eye is 40-60 degrees. The angle of view of Sigma’s “normal” 50mm lens is 47 degrees (depicted by the red “V”). The angle of view range of my Sigma 12-24mm UWA lens is from 84 degrees at 24mm (blue “V”), and 122 degrees at 12mm (green “V”). Most of the photos in this gallery were taken at 12mm.
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6357 A more distant view of the apse, altar, and pulpit. On the right, behind the glass doors you see between the two pillars, is where the main parts of the organ reside. The Christmas Tree looks misshapen due to the distortion produced by the UWA lens. I assure you it was a well shaped and balanced tree. (12mm)
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6359 The stained-glass windows to the left of the alter. The poinsettias will forever fix the season the photo was taken as Christmas time. (24mm)
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6360 A view from the rear toward the altar. (12mm)
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6356 A view toward the rear of the nave. Notice the silvery objects in the alcove in the ceiling and in the far left corner. They are both additional pipes of the organ. (12mm)
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6358 A closer view of the rear of the nave showing the balcony. The two sets of small organ pipes are more visible and recognizable in this photo. On the right is the sound booth. (24mm)
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6362 The sound booth. Churches have certainly changed since I first went to Sunday School in the late1950's in Kingston, New York. At my NY church, services were conducted in German until 1940 at the earliest, and there wasn’t an amplifier in the place. (24mm)
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6364 A wide-angled view of the pews from the side. I took this as a UWA exercise. (12mm)
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6365 A similar view as the previous one. Notice that the color along the sides of the church is provided by banners, not by stained-glass windows. (12mm)
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6367 A stained-glass window in the vestibule at the entrance to the church. (19mm)
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6367 Reversed. The same windows, but reversed so you can read the words in the glass. (19mm)
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6368 What do you think this is? What could a church have that would look like the cooling coils of a still? Actually, this is a stack of collection plates. (24mm)
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6500 Finally outside, Dee and I wandered around downtown Orlando snapping whatever we thought interesting. Then we found a seven-story parking garage. We climbed to the roof and continued snapping. This is the Waverly building, a former apartment building that has been converted to condos. Beyond the Waverly on the right is The Paramount On Lake Eola, an apartment building. (12mm)
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6509 The same two buildings from a different vantage point, and with a shorter exposure to darken the sky and diminish the intensity of the sun reflected off the PNC building. The little blue-greenish dome in the center of the photo is the Walt Disney Pavilion at Lake Eola. (12mm)
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6526 The American Momentum and the Waverly in bright, mid-afternoon. The shadow in the lower right is produced by the parking garage from the top of which I took these photos. Here you can clearly see the radical effects of a UWA lens. The cars in front of the American Momentum are shortened, while the car in the lower left corner is stretched. A UWA lens can be used to create many interesting effects, as I learned this day. (12mm)
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6555 Again, the same three buildings, but this time from the far side of the parking garage’s roof. These buildings are actually much closer to me than this photograph makes them appear. A UWA lens “pushes” near objects away from the camera in a manner opposite to that of a telephoto lens that “pulls” far objects closer to the camera. Without having set my UWA lens to 12mm I would not have been able to capture all three buildings in the same frame. (12mm)
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6568 This building resides at 111 N. Magnolia Ave. in Orlando. From what I can gather, it was originally the Dynatech Centre. Then its name was changed to the KEL Building, named by a bankruptcy law firm (Kaufman, Englett & Lynd) with offices in the building. It also houses the Aspire Apartments, which calls the building One Eleven. But it has been reported that the name of the building is being changed from KEL to the BBVA Compass after a wealth management bank in residency there. The building is reportedly owned by Lincoln Properties, Inc. Whew! It is a mixed-use (commercial and residential) building with a rooftop swimming pool that is claimed to be Orlando’s highest pool. This building is a good distance from the parking garage from where we were taking photos, so the photo was taken by a zoom telephoto lens at 105mm, and not by my UWA lens. (105mm)
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