Is it wide angle or fisheye?

[bulldog413]

So I have been following a photographer that I just love... he shot a friend's wedding and there were some shots he took and I would love to figure out how he did it. I'm hoping someone can help.

I posted two pics on flickr
photo-2 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
photo-1 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I'm guessing that some contrast or curves are involved in post, maybe not, so I'm wondering if he did this in post...

mostly, I was wondering if he shot these wide angle or with a fisheye lens. I have complimented him and follow him on fb, but I'm worried about asking him since I have started my own little photog biz.

Any tips/advice/insight on these shots would be appreciated.
Thanks!

[inkista]

Rectilinear wide angle. If it was a fisheye those tile lines would be curved, not straight.

[jdepould]

Looks like 14 or 16mm to me (full frame at least).

[bulldog413]

I'm pretty positive it was full frame... Nikon D300 I believe. And that makes sense about the lines. Thanks so much for the help!

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by bulldog413

I'm pretty positive it was full frame... Nikon D300 I believe. And that makes sense about the lines. Thanks so much for the help!

D300 isnt full-frame. D700 or D3.

[dcclark]

Wide angle. The D300 is DX, not full frame. Either way, you can tell because the straight lines are still straight (a fisheye would curve them). It's possible to have "unwrapped" a fisheye lens, in a process called "rectification", but it's probably not something you'd bother doing with a fisheye image.

[inkista]

Actually some folks regularly "defish" to use their fisheyes as ultrawides (for me, it's more of an occasional thing), but there's usually extreme smearing at the edges/corners; you usually end up with an x-pattern image to crop down. Judicious cropping can hide much of that, but to my eye those don't look like defished images--they usually look wider than ultrawides when defished, but I'm used to an 8mm circular fisheye, not a 15mm diagonal.

Flickr: Fisheye Defished

[bulldog413]

since I shoot Canon, I was just trying to remember what Nikon full frame was out there... sorry....