My Boy Roaming the Streets

Since we were talking about LensBaby lenses yesterday, I was inspired to put mine on the camera tonight when we went out for dinner. I was outside running around with my son as the adults were talking inside, and had some fun shooting while he explored the surroundings.

Some of you will know and will have used LensBaby lenses, but many of you will not, as can be seen in the comments in yesterday’s post. The lights in there are just obviously not from a normal lens. They would just blur into big spots, where with a LensBaby, they blur into big, oblong spots. Hmm, words just do not help much, sometimes. It is the feel of it all.

The other thing I appreciate about my LensBaby is that I can set aside my tack sharp tendencies. Especially without any aperture added in (funky, I know, but you manually put the aperture in there) and running with the base f/2, most of the shot is going to be out of focus most of the time. I like the general lack of clarity in this photo. I am freed to just enjoy the whole scene instead of being forced to a focus spot.

Yes, you can browse through many different examples of LensBaby photos in places like the LensBaby Flickr page, but given yesterday’s brief mention and the folks who did not quite know what it was, I wanted to give another example here.

I just noticed a thumbnail of this photo in Google Reader. I was not even reading the news, this was just on the very top of the page because it was recent. So, I could easily believe others have used LensBaby in photojournalistic work, but I just have not seen it.

I am so happy, because I have been exploring myself how to use a LensBaby in an editorial or photojournalistic context. I know there are no rules, per se, but it is encouraging to know I am no totally cuckoo.