Add fisheye effect?

I have the Viltrox 9mm f2.8 for my Sony A6700. It takes some great wide angle shots, but it has some decent correction built in where the edges don't get that fisheye distortion.

But what if I want that fisheye distortion? Not all the time, but there are definitely situations where it would look good for how wide it is. Is there a way to do that?

I tried manual lens corrections, but setting distortion to 0 doesn't do it and image scale basically just gives me pixel stretching or zooms. Is there a different module I can use?

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u/roomandcoke — 2 days ago

I now understand big fish stories

I just shot the absolute best roll of my life.

On vacation in Paris, shots of my daughter playing with the boats at Jardin du Luxembourg. Great wide angle composition with my 28mm, awesome compression shots with my 105mm.

Sure it was Phoenix II and a bit of a dice roll, but the colors just WORKED in this situation.

Finished out the roll with some golden hour shots in the narrow streets walking to and at dinner.

...then I got a bonus 37th shot... and a 38th... and it kept advancing. Never grabbed on the take up spool. I know I should've confirmed the rewind knob was spinning when I advanced, but I didn't.

Best roll of my life.

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u/roomandcoke — 10 days ago

Sharpness vs. Clarity in Darktable

I watched this video about creating soft photos, and starting at 8:02, he basically says turn edge sharpness up to help define the subject but then turn overall clarity down. But he's using Lightroom.

What is the Darktable way to achieve this?

Contrast Equalizer and move the sliders on left up and the sliders on the right down?

Multiple Contrast Equalizer modules with parametric masks targeting or avoiding edge detail?

Multiple Diffuse or Sharpen modules with parametric masks?

Use some of the sharpness and clarity presets of either/both of those modules with parametric masks?

I guess I'm also asking more broadly how are the terms "sharpness" and "clarity" differentiated. I can't seem to get one definitive straight answer when researching.

u/roomandcoke — 2 months ago

"You must redeem your entire available Bilt Cash balance" language meaning

Found at https://support.biltrewards.com/hc/en-us/articles/42897766682381-Bilt-Card-2-0-Program-Overview

I have $440 of Bilt cash, but my housing payment would only use $228 of my Bilt cash.

Does that language mean that the remaining $212 would just be forfeit? This page is the only place that implies that. It doesn't appear on the page describing how to use Bilt cash.

Or is the "entire balance" in reference to my housing payment? Meaning I can't spend like $100 Bilt cash towards housing and hang onto the rest, they require that I redeem all available cash for my entire housing payment?

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u/roomandcoke — 2 months ago