Inside the museum is impressive. It is packed with aircraft of all sorts. As you enter you are on a balcony that gently slopes to ground level. There you can walk around the aircraft.
Here you are looking over the balcony at a Phantom Fighter-Bomber. The image is taken with a 15mm fisheye lens on a 35mm full frame camera. So you get an elongation of the aircraft.
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@smapp - Yes, the magnification is a different experience. Actually this lens is pretty lame on a cropped sensor. It looks like a moderate wide angle. However, you are getting the much shorter focal length and this suites a cropped sensor better. 10mm on a full frame will be heavily distorted, possibly unusable.
good expression of the shape of that gallery / hangar - the fish eye really brings the curving balcony out. It's not the easiest place to get good exposures with that glass end wall looking out across the Cambridgeshire countryside and the relative dark inside
Great shot, love it. It also makes me want that 10-24mm Nikon lens very much I mentioned in chatting to you somewhere - the perspective on this beautiful photo I find very appealing
@whippeteer - Yes, I love the appeal of the fisheye too. Mind you, mine is a prime so it tends to get the extra sharpness you lose on a zoom, but it also makes getting the right shot that little bit more difficult. 'Vive la differance' as they say!
This is even better you have framed it really well with the curve of the balcony and the wide angle lens has given it a great distortion! Was it taken with a fisheye?
Oh, man - Another wicked cool shot! What was strange for me when I was here was being a "Yank" and seeing our own planes in your Museum. They have an SR-71 Blackbird (outrageously cool jet) that my father worked on as a jet engineer here in Connecticut in the 60's. How's that! I'm loving these! Cheers, and be well, Les
ps. I like the word verdance! ;-)