Rainy day

This week I was paired with Shantel Rich who challenged: for your push, I would like for you to try the freelensing technique. Because it is so different from your stream, I will not ask that you only do a close up, but allow you to take the lens and roll with it and see what wonderful image you can create! (Great push by the way!)

I have seen lensbaby and tilt shift images and mostly thought: that can be done in post processing for how much I would use it… And it took me a while (like a few hours of trying and going back to the tutorials to figure it out) but once I sort of had the hang of it, I was obsessed. As a matter of fact I looked to see how much a lensbaby would cost (because I was a little worried about my equipment). I have long loved the (mostly) out of focus pictures that ooze emotion, because you have to imagine details. But I could not duplicate the look for lots of reasons. Mostly mine looked like focusing errors. So this was something unique that I had not heard of before (and I read a lot about photography) and it gave me some really exciting results. So here’s one of my favorite images from this push. I loved this technique! Thanks Shantel.

 

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