Silent Sunday
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Posts Tagged ‘Lensbaby Composer’
Lensbaby Super Wide…my nemesis
Posted under Lensbaby
My love for the Lensbaby composer is unbounded. It raises me up, so I can stand on mountains etc etc. But the superwide optic? Not so much. Actually I can’t get a good shot with it at all. They are all either a blurred mess, or the composition/selective focus mix are so awful they often make me feel slightly giddy to look at it. I’ve never, not once, kept a shot I’ve taken with the superwide on.
I can’t decide whether to push on, and master the beast. Or just give up and stick with what I know. Any togs out there use the superwide optic with any success?
Looks quite freaky and alien like, no? Pretty much how my pictures turn out too. Damn that weird bit of glass.
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Photo A Day: You can’t touch this
Posted under Photography
I’m trying to challenge myself my Photo A Day project, trying different subjects, different compositions and different styles of processing than ‘my usual’. What I can’t seem to change is the ongoing Lensbaby addiction. It’s not an easy lens to work with and the results are unpredictable to an extent, but I love its quirkiness and the sharp contrast of focused/unfocused, it has a really ‘creamy’ feel to it that is so appealing.
The thistles are blooming. Last year I couldn’t stop taking photos of them since we had a field’s worth in front of our office which attracted bees, wasps, butterflies and goldfinches. I have made a promise to limit myself to one shot this year, and here is is. A different perspective than usual, from underneath and the back of the flower. I kind of like it, bit sombre perhaps, but certainly a contrast from last year’s shots. I love how you can see the fine spiderweb bound around the prickles. PSA: those prickles? They are really, really prickly. Ouch.
Last year’s ouchy prickles:
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Photo A Day: All together now
Posted under parenting, Photography
Oh, that old classic ‘pen’ shot. I don’t think I’ve done one of these before. It’s quite annoying that my children didn’t think to arrange them in so that similar shades/tones weren’t adjacent. Must get them in to Colour Appreciation Boot Camp to avoid this in the future. Taken with the Lensbaby of course. What else? Can’t…get…it…off…my…camera…send…help.
Random selection of the World According to Diggy (3) today:
Me: Look! Look over there, can you see that animal that looks like a really big rabbit? That’s a hare…look how fast he can run!
Diggy: [disappointed voice] oh. I thought it was a reindeer
Later…
Me: Who did you play with at nursery today?
Diggy: Just my own self. Who did you play with?
Me: No one. I was working.
Diggy: And did you do tidy up time afterwards?
Me: No. I didn’t need to
Diggy: [stern voice] Well, that was very naughty behaviour.
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Photo A Day: After the rain
Posted under Photography
Poppies…a weed of such contrasts….from blousy splendour to architectural in a few short weeks. It’s hard not to be wowed by the sea of red when they’re in full bloom, but I have a secret passion for them when they’re like this. Taken with the Lensbaby Composer at f4. Love the creamy bokeh of the Lensbaby. Love the Lensbaby fullstop.
All red hat and no knickers poppies, taken 3 weeks ago. Such a change!
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Never let me go
Posted under People I love, Photography
Please excuse my dark and moody processing. Just trying something. Just getting out of my comfort zone (oh WHY do I have “I went to the danger zone” from Top Gun playing through my head as I write that? Embarrassing)
Here’s Mr B, gripping on for dear life whilst scaling the scallop on Aldeburgh beach today. Looks terrifying doesn’t it? He was, ooooh, about a whole FOOT off the ground. I’d laid a safety net of course and had an ambulance on standby…
Later both boys made deposits of knee skin on the beach path whilst cycling, cried a few (hundred) tears and were consoled with fish & chips on the beach. To round things off nicely, Mr B made a second skin deposit on our garden path as we came home. There’s a leeetle bit less of my boys tonight than there was this morning. Oh well.
Taken with the Lensbaby yet again. I love the Lensbaby so much it’s like an actual baby to me. But without all the crying and whinging and wailing. SCORE!
I am really pleased with this shot. Am I allowed to say that? Ooops, I just did.
