THE JANUARY LENSBABY put your pictures here thread

Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Canon

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

01/11/2009 08:55:52 AM · #301

11. for Jon - Death is Not the End

Rino63

Canon EOS-50D

01/11/2009 08:56:30 AM · #302

photoshop action...what do you think about it?

Ecce_Signum

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

01/11/2009 10:45:46 AM · #303

11 of 31 and its off to candid land, something I tend not to be comfortable doing.

benee

Canon EOS-5D

Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM Autofocus Lens

01/11/2009 11:07:43 AM · #304

01/11/2009 11:17:41 AM · #305

Originally posted by JuliBoc:

I took so many shots today and most of them had lousy focus. Very disappointing. I'll have to be more careful next time.

You may be worrying too much about the concept "focus"? I'm not sure ANY of mine thus far have sharp sweet spot, certainly none of the recent ones; I am deliberately avoiding it for now. Of course, I may be out of my mind, but...

In the example above, I don't think the sharp focus on the berries is doing us any good at all, it just makes the blurred aspect of the palms look arbitrary, not really integral to the visioning of the image.

R.

Canon EF 24-70mm f / 4L IS USM Lens

01/11/2009 12:20:12 PM · #306

Took a flight over Siberia this morning, got this shot:

magenmarie

Canon EOS-5D Mark IV

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

01/11/2009 12:25:09 PM · #307

I am so behind!
This is challenging me to be more creative though. I love it.
Here's my iron. ;)

Marc923

01/11/2009 01:14:36 PM · #308

LB#7 - Another one with the +4 macro.

Germaine

Canon EOS-7D Mark II

01/11/2009 01:57:05 PM · #309

Ecce_Signum

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

01/11/2009 02:38:28 PM · #310

Originally posted by Jutilda:

Does anyone have the optic box attachments that are available with some of the Composer packages???

shhhh, I just got the single glass, plastic and pinhole/zoneplate kit. Still to use the pinhole/zoneplate and currently practising on changing the elements whilst trying to look cool ;)

tph1

Fujifilm X-T1

Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS

01/11/2009 07:21:10 PM · #311

I was haunted today by

RKT's photo of a ladder. An item so simple and ordinary made mesmerizing, memorable. All I could do was head back out to the practice field.

pawdrix

Nikon D700

Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D IF

01/11/2009 08:20:44 PM · #312

Might be my last one for the week. Hopefully I'll get out a few times to shoot, depending on work and the weather. Cheers!

krnodil

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

01/11/2009 11:08:05 PM · #313

took more shots today, so will have some "real" shots soon

will work on the comment backlog tomorrow...

JuliBoc

Apple iPhone 6s+

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

01/11/2009 11:20:26 PM · #314

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by JuliBoc:

I took so many shots today and most of them had lousy focus. Very disappointing. I'll have to be more careful next time.

You may be worrying too much about the concept "focus"? I'm not sure ANY of mine thus far have sharp sweet spot, certainly none of the recent ones; I am deliberately avoiding it for now. Of course, I may be out of my mind, but...

In the example above, I don't think the sharp focus on the berries is doing us any good at all, it just makes the blurred aspect of the palms look arbitrary, not really integral to the visioning of the image.

R.

Okay, back to the drawing board. Tomorrow, I won't worry so much about focus, and I'll see what I get. I never was any good at manual focus anyway. Thanks

sempermarine

Apple iPhone 5s

01/11/2009 11:21:28 PM · #315

Day 11:

JuliBoc

Apple iPhone 6s+

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

01/11/2009 11:52:27 PM · #316

trevytrev

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM

01/12/2009 01:09:56 AM · #317

Retroesque

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

01/12/2009 06:13:38 AM · #318

12. tumble

ErinM

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/12/2009 09:22:05 AM · #319

day 12

Germaine

Canon EOS-7D Mark II

Canon EF 24-70mm f / 4L IS USM Lens

01/12/2009 09:28:41 AM · #320

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/12/2009 01:09:31 PM · #321

Got this on the way home from the hand surgeon today. I even used the sweet spot!

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

01/12/2009 02:06:47 PM · #322

Originally posted by Rino63:

photoshop action...what do you think about it?

As an effect, I can see some appeal in the image, but as a LB simulation it doesn't cut it at all. It looks more like extreme radial (zoom) blur.

I have only attempted a lensbaby effect in PS one time and didn't think it was even close enough to pass of as an LB shot:

Let me know what you think?

I do believe I could come up with a PS action that could come close, and I had it in my mind before I got an LB that PS action would be better because I would always have the original, unblurrified image to do other things with. But I have since changed my tune - the LB seems to create images that aren't and can't be seen through a normal lens even after hours of processing.

I'll have some *real* shots to post in a day or two. Carry on.

Ecce_Signum

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

01/12/2009 02:13:26 PM · #323

day 12 and I have a headache so have uploaded a barely edited JPEG, let the guessing commence ;)

chromeydome

Nikon D7000

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

01/12/2009 02:26:10 PM · #324

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

Originally posted by Rino63:
photoshop action...what do you think about it?

As an effect, I can see some appeal in the image, but as a LB simulation it doesn't cut it at all. It looks more like extreme radial (zoom) blur.

I have only attempted a lensbaby effect in PS one time and didn't think it was even close enough to pass of as an LB shot:

Let me know what you think?

I do believe I could come up with a PS action that could come close, and I had it in my mind before I got an LB that PS action would be better because I would always have the original, unblurrified image to do other things with. But I have since changed my tune - the LB seems to create images that aren't and can't be seen through a normal lens even after hours of processing.

I'll have some *real* shots to post in a day or two. Carry on.

I was wondering about this, too. Until/Unless someone creates a fairly complex plug-in/effect, I think the average post-processing will provide the oddly shaped focus sweet spot, but not the distortion/stretching of the oof areas caused by the lens tilt/swing.