Sunless.art application for the MF 6mm F2 lens (X mount)

Skills and gear :

I’m proficient in using manual focus lenses.
I own a Nikon FM2, which is a fully mechanical SLR camera.
I only have two lenses for that camera, a 35mm f2.0 and a 50mm f1.2 so the depth of field can be quite narrow and accurate focus is tricky.

Example of portrait taken with the 50mm at f1.2 using Fuji400 film.
Example of portrait taken with the 35mm using Orwo NC500 dev in ECN2.

I own a wide angle fisheye lens.
I wanted to get a wide angle lens for a while, but couldn’t afford one, until I saw a listing on eBay for a Sigma 10mm F2.8 EX DC FISHEYE HSM with EF mount for Canon.
The price was affordable, because it is actually an APSC lens, so I’m using it on my Canon EOS760D.
I wanted to get a wide angle lens because I only had a 35mm lens and I also wanted to capture more of the environment and focusing less on single details. The streets of Taipei can be quite narrow, so a wide angle is so much better at this than the 35mm.

Example of portrait taken with the 10mm Fisheye

Portraits using a wide angle fisheye lens outside of fashion photography isn’t common, but I recently watched Fallen Angels by Wong Kar Wai and I wanted to take pictures with the same aesthetics.

The fisheye distortion wasn’t fully corrected in post in this portrait series.

Below are examples of street photography using the fisheye lens with the distortion was corrected in post. I chose to shoot these pictures directly in a square aspect ratio because the corners will look bad once the distortion correction is applied.
But the 10mm is perfect to get a view of the whole street, to get a better idea of the scene or to photography tight corners of the city.

Example of street photography taken with the 10mm Fisheye
Example of street photography taken with the 10mm Fisheye

I own a manual focus wide angle lens.
This one is for my Fuji X-S20, a “nearly zero distortion” manual focus, wide angle lens. I got it because it’s meant for APSC sensos, so it’s cheap, and I wanted to get a rectilinear wide angle lens for my fuji.

Just like the Sigma Fisheye lens, I take this one whenever I need to show the whole environment. This time I also do architecture photography, something I just didn’t explore back when I just had the Sigma lens.

Example of architecture photography using the MF 10mm lens.
Example of architecture photography using the MF 10mm lens.
Urbex photography using the MF 10mm lens.
Urbex photography using the MF 10mm lens, the rooftop view of the building from the previous picture.
Example of wide-angle fashion photography using the MF 10mm.
Example of wide-angle fashion photography using the MF 10mm.
Urban photography using the MF 10mm lens. If this picture was printed in large format, it would give the viewer the impression to be part of the scene.
Example of street photography using the MF 10mm.
Example of street photography using the MF 10mm.

Closing summary

Socials :
Instagram : @sunless.art
Youtube : @sunless-art
(more in the website’s header)

I started to hate my photography so I deleted all my content on social media, so that’s why it’s empty 🥺
(plus I’m about to move to another country, so I’m also removing followers because the algorithm will punish me for posting in another language).

I have curated projects on my website, but obviously, no portfolio and most of my photography is on my computer, but it should give you an idea of my style, I’m into social issues and my style is usually on the darker side, however, as you can see on this application, I can do more. And I have no video because I’m only a photographer at the moment, but I do have gear for video, so making videos for that lens is something I can do.

Why am I applying to get that lens? I’m interested in the 6mm fisheye lens because I think it will be very handy to take pictures inside small traditional shops, they’re small and having a super wide angle would really help show how these places look from the inside rather than just small parts.