This project came about somewhat accidental.

A few weeks ago, I rented a Sigma 8mm/f3.5 Fish-eye lens from a local photo shop here in town. The idea was to actually play around with it more than I’d gotten to the month earlier, when I rented it for a single day.

One of the days I had the lens, was a deck-warming party at a friend of mines’ house. I had recently read about making time-lapse videos online, and decided to take advantage of the 180 degree field-of-view:

In addition to the ~350 images it took to make the video above, I took about 150 other still images as part of this experiment.

You can see the best picks by looking at my 8mm Project set on Flickr.