Flower shot with Lens Baby
May 28, 2022 15:11:27 #
This flower is in a patio pot. Used a small Tri-pod positioned low and toward the sky for a bright background.
Shot f/4 with a Lens Baby Composer Pro Sweet 50 with a B+W 46mm Close-Up +4 screw on filter creating a macro lens. It's hard for me see the focus area using Lens Baby lenses. On my Nikon I turned on my Focus Peaking and my Live View screen making it much easier to find my desired area to focus. Added a layer for background and masked accordingly.
Shot f/4 with a Lens Baby Composer Pro Sweet 50 with a B+W 46mm Close-Up +4 screw on filter creating a macro lens. It's hard for me see the focus area using Lens Baby lenses. On my Nikon I turned on my Focus Peaking and my Live View screen making it much easier to find my desired area to focus. Added a layer for background and masked accordingly.
May 28, 2022 15:26:55 #
May 28, 2022 18:40:24 #
May 29, 2022 01:46:02 #
May 29, 2022 06:52:20 #
Curmudgeon, LensBaby's were all the rage and then grew up!! They were expensive...well not compared to most lenses, but to me, who uses 1985+ minolta lenses they were... because they were a novelty. [and my retirement income is 20+ y old]
You can give the effect a try with a simple DIY approach. You will need an adaptor for your DSLR to make it think there is a lens attached. Duct Tape to the DIY rescue to make a tilt-shift Lensbaby act a like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhL7PBkKjBw
I am getting educated explaining. Lensbaby is the tilt part of tilt-shift. Many camera adapters for tilt-shift are available... go a search for your camera.
how to use a tilt-shift lens...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB8LzBTLTf4
You can give the effect a try with a simple DIY approach. You will need an adaptor for your DSLR to make it think there is a lens attached. Duct Tape to the DIY rescue to make a tilt-shift Lensbaby act a like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhL7PBkKjBw
I am getting educated explaining. Lensbaby is the tilt part of tilt-shift. Many camera adapters for tilt-shift are available... go a search for your camera.
how to use a tilt-shift lens...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB8LzBTLTf4
May 29, 2022 07:19:12 #
May 29, 2022 08:11:34 #
Wow....that's beautiful, Jim! I love the lighting and softness of the image.
May 29, 2022 08:42:06 #
May 29, 2022 08:51:35 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I know absolutely nothing about LensBaby but I really like the shot
LensBaby lenses are known for letting you selected focus area and allowing for a soft bokeh around that area. Composer Pro is an attachment that lets you tilt shift the lens in any direction. You have a choice of lenses to put into the Composer pro attachment.
Not all of the Lens Babies come with the ability to tilt. On the web site for Lens Baby you will find the different lenses and their abilities. I have 2 lenses that I bought used on Ebay. Fun to play with when you are looking for something different.
Jim
May 29, 2022 08:55:59 #
[quote=dpullum]Curmudgeon, LensBaby's were all the rage and then grew up!! They were expensive...well not compared to most lenses, but to me, who uses 1985+ minolta lenses they were... because they were a novelty. [and my retirement income is 20+ y old]
I agree they are somewhat of a novelty. But when you burn out it helps one get motavated in another direction.
As you mentioned they could be classified as a novelty and not used to much so if you should find one use they are fairly cheep.
I agree they are somewhat of a novelty. But when you burn out it helps one get motavated in another direction.
As you mentioned they could be classified as a novelty and not used to much so if you should find one use they are fairly cheep.
May 29, 2022 08:56:41 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Breathtakingly beautiful, Jim.
Thanks Linda, was hoping to get that sort of reaction. 😊
May 29, 2022 08:58:43 #
PattyW60 wrote:
Wow....that's beautiful, Jim! I love the lighting and softness of the image.
Thanks Patty. Lensbaby lenses are known for their softness. Happy you liked it.
Jim
May 29, 2022 10:52:55 #
May 29, 2022 15:21:55 #
I confess that I generally don't like lensbaby effects, and I almost passed on opening this post, but wow, I am blown away. Spec-bloody-tacular work!
May 29, 2022 16:16:58 #
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