The Fotogroup Project

Chantal's first Lensbaby attempt

This image was taken using a Lensbaby. The great people at Lensbabies.com were awesome enough to send me my very own Lensbaby for product review. Over the next few weeks I will be posting many of the images I shoot using the lens, and then writing a product review which will be submitted to various publications, online and off.

A Lensbaby is a selective focus lens for SLR cameras--both digital and standard. It allows you to bring one area of your image into sharp focus, or 'sweet spot', surrounded by a graduated blur.

So far, I'm enjoying shooting with my Lensbaby. They say on the website, that it may take a little practice to achieve your desired effect, I'm seeing that this is true. Since I use film, I'm limited by how quickly I can get my film processed, before I move on to the next attempt. I'm shooting one roll of film at a time, and keeping track of all of the variables so that I know what works for me, and what doesn't.

I'm not very happy with the image here. The lens comes with various aperture rings that you can change manually. I'll talk about that more when I write the actual review. For this image I used the f/4 ring, and I also used one of the macro filters (from the macro kit they sent me!). I wanted a very up-close, tight image, which I got, but it's obviously ineffective. I probably shouldn't have used the macro, that way more of the background would have been in sharper focus. The image is also slightly overexposed, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, in fact, I often will purposely overexpose many of my images, but again, here, it's just not very effective.

Oh well.....gives me reason to try, and try again!!

posted by chantal stone @ 6/06/2006 09:25:00 AM