{"id":13,"date":"2017-10-20T09:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T09:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/?p=13"},"modified":"2018-02-12T11:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T11:00:23","slug":"image-of-the-week-20-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/2017\/10\/20\/image-of-the-week-20-october-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Week &#8211; Graduation Fisheye"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>New angles on Graduation.<\/h2>\n<p>President of Imperial, Professor Alice P. Gast, shakes the hand of a graduating student on the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, while a spectator in a headscarf watches on from the left of the picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2017\/10\/1800_ug_graduation_angus_111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-70 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/files\/2017\/10\/751_ug_graduation_angus_111.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Alice P. Gast shakes the hand of a Medicine Graduate on the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, while a spectator in a Niqab watches on from the left of the picture. Image copyright Thomas Angus \/ Imperial College London\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #999999;font-size: 10pt\">Image \u00a9<\/span><span style=\"color: #999999;font-size: 10pt\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #999999;font-size: 10pt\">Thomas Angus \/ Imperial College London\u00a0 [<\/span><span style=\"color: #999999;font-size: 10pt\">Click Image to expand]<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s quite challenging to come up with new angles on this very well covered event so a fisheye lens has been used here to force an impossible perspective, which brings all the elements \u2013 including the spectator in the box, the grand hall and the stage \u2013 together.<br \/>\nThe distortion also creates some wonderfully organic flowing \u2018leading lines\u2019 in the image, making it very easy for the viewer to be guided as intended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asset-library.imperial.ac.uk\/assetbank-imperial\/action\/viewAsset?id=217713&amp;index=90&amp;total=12798&amp;view=viewSearchItem\">Imperial staff and students can view the original image along with the others from this set on the College\u2019s Asset Library<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Learn more about shooting with ultra wide angle lenses<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Photoshop-tutorials\/Working-ultra-wide-lenses\/111233\/119323-4.html\">Watch a video tutorial on <span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">working with ultra wide angle lenses<\/span> on Lynda.com<\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u00a0(College users have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/staff-development\/development-options\/online-resources\/lynda-com\/\">free access to Lynda courses<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New angles on Graduation. President of Imperial, Professor Alice P. Gast, shakes the hand of a graduating student on the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, while a spectator in a headscarf watches on from the left of the picture. Image \u00a9\u00a0Thomas Angus \/ Imperial College London\u00a0 [Click Image to expand]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280424,273413,10958],"tags":[283559,431,6090,10971],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-available-light","category-image-of-the-week","category-photo-tips","tag-fisheye","tag-graduation","tag-royal-albert-hall","tag-thomas-angus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}