Winter Cleaning - Found a CF card with pictures

Decided to do a little spring cleaning and get ready for the new year. I am only behind blogging about 40 jobs. Started to prepare hard drives and backups for the new year. During my cleaning I found few memory cards of pictures tucked away. One of the cards was part of our Disney World trip. The really sad thing was it was from 2008. Before I start getting emails about how do you lose family photos, this card only had a few shots on it (I use a point and shoot I can stick in my pocket for most all these occasions) One day I brought an SLR and forgot my primary lens. Attached was my Lens Baby.

For those of you who are not familiar with creative lenses, the lens baby is a type of tilt shift lens. It is one of the more fun lenses I like to use but generally do not post many photos with it. In short, the Lens Baby lens bends and changes the focal point or curves the field of focus. There are many factors that will impact the image including the amount and direction one’s bends the lens along with the type of aperture disk that is used. Enough of that, I will just show you. All the images below are straight out of camera. The only adjustments were brightness and contrast. These are not photoshop’ed images in any way.

I made a few custom aperture disc’s with shapes that will enhance the light in creative ways. I have used stars, palm trees, and other random shaped that impact the lighting in unique and fun ways.




Here is an example of what I cut out of my aperture ring. It is a squiggly... a curly q... a spiral... not sure how to define it. Here you can see how it takes the light and shapes it to the aperture ring shape. Below you can see more characteristics of how this aperture disc shapes the image. If I had to guess what aperture it would be (totally a guess) I think I would have it right around f.8


Here you can really get an idea of the Aperture shape on the top and bottom. The shape you see in the lights is the shape cut out in my aperture ring.




Handheld here, kind of a fun effect with the fireworks.

If you like trying new things and really getting creative with your photography, I cannot recommend this lens enough. I actually have two Lens Babies. The 2.0 which is now the Muse and also the Composer. I like the quickness and flexibility with the 2.0 however the Composer is awesome, especially if you have to repeat a shot. I have a Canon Tilt shift and it is totally unique in its own way, also a lot sharper than the Lens Baby lenses. The Lens Baby dos have its own signature style and for me a bit more fun to use on the fly.
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