I'm continuting here a series of experiments inspired by a Flickr master Sue(Light~Shape~Color)

Experimenting with lensbaby soft focus.

Thanks for the comments :)

One of my flickr friends introduced me to picmonkey, the now version of the defunct picnik, I really like it, so I had a play tonight with my galah shot that I was going to throw out and it came out quite well

a double exposure using my homemade soft focus filter. one exposure soft, the second sharp on my nikon D300.

cheers.

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If you’d like to view my images larger… While I only allow my contacts to view my larger images (I generally upload at least 800px images on the long axis)…

a quick workaround I might suggest is to view my photostream as a slideshow. Works well for me. This is frequently how I view others’ ‘streams, and it will put a large image on black. just click the projector screen icon next to the stream or set. : )

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on 01 jan 2010, I began a new journey w/ a flickr 365 group that i formed. The idea is that I strive to push myself daily; by exploring techniques, ideas, and experiments.

~365: experimental~

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Decided to be stupid and get up early, before sunrise, and take some pictures thinking it would be cooler, and have some dew on the plants. What I forgot is this is Texas, it's never that much cooler, and it's been so dry here that there was no dew. I was about to go back inside and back to sleep, when I saw this spider with it's early meal for the day :)

Bon Appetit

Taken in Allen Tx at around 6:30

Austin Gartman Photography

View On White

Beautiful girl

Sesión Realizada por SoftFocus Group.

Just to see how it would look

View On White

my first softfocus

My daughter on her prom night last year.

Gimp or PhotoShop:

duplicate layer

make top layer about 40% opaque (60% transparent)

blur bottom layer (Gaussian blur around 40px radius)

Actually I cheated and did a third layer on top for the eyes alone with another 40% opacity.

Softfocus, lens used EF 135 Softfocus

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

SoftFocus 1

soft focus fire

EBC Fujinon SF 1:4 f=85mm

Pentax Z-1

Taken Date: 2008:09:07 17:07:26

FocalLength: 135.0 mm

F-Number: F 2.8

Exposure Time: 1/1600 secs

ISO Speed: 400

EF 135 soft focus

Trying the soft-focus setting on my lens.

I didn't care for the movie. Good acting and direction, but ultimately the story went nowhere.

EF 135 Softfocus

Taken Date: 2008:09:07 17:02:41

FocalLength: 135.0 mm

F-Number: F 2.8

Exposure Time: 1/4000 secs

ISO Speed: 400

Edit challenge

Original Photo Taken By Christina

www.flickr.com/photos/23472122@N04/4404079914/in/faves-29...

How would you edit this group

www.flickr.com/groups/howwouldyoueditthis/

Nosey neighbor, spray-on-frosted glass, eunymous against the southern-facing window.

I did nothing to this photo except reduce the size.

Oh yes .... and I was inspired to take this shot by Poesie here at flickr (http://www.flickr.com/people/poesie/). I think many of her images are simply beautiful.

French Quarter, New Orleans

the francis bacon effect in effect

Parc

Manresa, Barcelona.

Another senseless shot from a senseless walkaround. I just happen to like night shots done with this lens.

Lensbaby Composer + Softfocus

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Parc

Manresa.

Una altra foto sense massa sentit. Simplement que m'agrada que queden les fotos de nit amb aquesta lent.

EF 135 Softfocus

jus like SRK! :)

my cousin.

Taken Date: 2008:09:07 16:50:10

FocalLength: 135.0 mm

F-Number: F 5.6

Exposure Time: 0.01 secs

ISO Speed: 400