Scottish Elises

Please excuse the dodgy reflections, dirty car, missing grills and shoddy background but was just playing with (another) new toy. Its a lensbaby composer and quite good fun but I need a bit more practice getting the focus and sweetspot set up. All taken at F4 as I couldn't be bothered changing the aperture discs which are held by magnets.

Does anyone else have one of these?








Sorry if there are too many

Great shots.....



...although they do leave me feeling as if I have a hangover..

Cool. Often been tempted to try a Lens Baby, but in the end splashed-out on a T/S intead. Do the bellow only bend on one axis (ie. tilt) or can you put an S-bend in there (ie. shift)?

Be interested to see more results as you get used to it

Cool!! I like the first one best! The last two make me feel a tad dizzy though!!

Only tilt I'm afraid but I think the new "controlfreak" lensaby allows shift as well, this one works on a lockable ball socket, not a bad wee lens for £125 and the lensbaby2.0 is cheaper but not as good optically. Would like a tilt and shift lens to keep foreground in focus for wide angle shots but fairly expensive aren't they? Anyway I spend enough money on this nonsense, after a telephoto lens and a speedlite that's it for a while, oh and a macro kit for the lensbaby, and a macro lens but that's it....apart from some more filters, and an i.r. remote flash set up and ......, who am I kidding?!

smee wrote:Would like a tilt and shift lens to keep foreground in focus for wide angle shots but fairly expensive aren't they? Anyway I spend enough money on this nonsense, after a telephoto lens and a speedlite that's it for a while, oh and a macro kit for the lensbaby, and a macro lens but that's it....apart from some more filters, and an i.r. remote flash set up and ......, who am I kidding?!

Perspective and controlling focal plane are the primary reasons I got my TS. It's a superb landscape lens. Yes, a bit pricey (especially for the amount it gets used, which is not a great deal when you have an 8mth old son ) but I had SIX duff 24-70mm samples so gave up on Nikon's Q/C with that lens, got frustrated, ran out of patience, and pushed the button on the PC/E The TS does nice miniature effect too of course, but just a fun by-product for me.

Is it easiest to set focus and focal plane angle and then step forward/back to get the subject on the focal plane, or stand still and use the focus ring? (I'm assuming there's a focus ring!)

Really look forward to seeing your results as you get to know it

Was using a tripod. I think it might be easier to focus in centre then tilt thelense and then move te camera to line the sweetspot up. I was using live view fo focsand also checkin thrugh the view finder but I think I could connect to the laptop fo more accurate results, not handy though.