When I first saw the announcement of the Lensbaby Soft Focus Optic I fell in love head over heels immediately. The images that accompanied the announcement earlier this year sold me straight away. They were dreamy and velvety soft and had a very beautiful quality to them. While I have had the Soft Focus Optic for a while now, it wasn't until today that I finally got around to make some images with this new optic. And I can tell you that I wasn't one bit disappointed. I'm still very much in love...
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The fisheye look is not to everyone's taste and I have always been a bit unsure about the look myself. However once I found out Lensbaby had introduced a $149.95 Fisheye Optic for the Lensbaby Optic Swap System I was sold.
Continue reading...Sunday, January 10, 2010
This week-end I found a lot of inspiration in a blog post by Ibarionex Perello titled Just Shoot Something and I think it's something that will resonate with most photographers, so go take a look for yourself, specially if you're a little low on inspiration. In the last few days I have been concentrating on using my Lensbaby on my dedicated infrared Canon 20D which I had converted to infrared by the folks from LifePixel.
Continue reading...Friday, January 8, 2010
Today I had the opportunity to go for a small walk in the mid afternoon with my daughter. In the spirit of living a photographic life - and making the most of every opportunity - I brought along one of my Canon 20Ds which I have had converted to a dedicated infrared camera by LifePixel.
Continue reading...Friday, October 23, 2009
Lensbaby has just launched two new Optics – Fisheye and Soft Focus – which both look very interesting, although I have to say my love at first sight falls on the Soft Focus Optic. Some of the sample images on the Lensbaby website from this Optic are just stunningly beautiful. Here is a quick little [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 22, 2009
There is an incredible amount of excellent, creative photography to be viewed on flickr. It’s simply mind boggling to think about all the creative talent that’s out there. Today I looked through hundreds and hundreds of different Lensbaby shots on flickr with the intention to make another ’15 Fine Flickrs’ compilation. There were many beautiful [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 10, 2009
Yesterday I picked up my Lensbaby macro lens kit at the post office (along with a telephoto kit and a set of creative apertures) and today I had an opportunity to make a few images with it. Oh boy, am I going to have a lot of fun with the two macro lenses that come in [...]
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Saturday, May 8, 2010
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