Last week I purchased a Lensbaby Composer. For those not in the know, this is a simple lens that combines a ball and socket mechanism (or bellows in the case of the Lensbaby Muse) to create special effects. The lens can be manipulated off-axis to move the area of focus to anywhere in the frame throwing everything else out of focus. Instead of the aperture being controlled by your camera, the Lensbaby uses a set of interchangeable discs and focus is only achieved manually. The results can be Lomo/Holga-esque. If you’ve been following my blog you know that I’ve recently become interested in this type of photography.
As you might imagine, there’s a little bit of a learning curve with this lens. Yesterday I went to try it out at Zilker Botanical Garden. Of the 114 pictures that I shot, I was only satisfied with 2 of them. The majority of the ones that didn’t work out were out of focus (the wind helped play a role in that along with my inexperience with the lens).
Anyway, here are my keepers (click on the pictures to be taken to their respective galleries). Let me know what you think and if you’d like to see more of this type of photography!
