Day 31 – I Love my Lensbaby

Sunday was spent cleaning up the garden and even though there are many things growing out there, there wasn’t anything photographically inspiring. My daffodils should be open in a few days, so then I’ll have something botanical to look at.

In the meantime, I came across some wonderful photos using the creative aperture filters on a Lensbaby, something I haven’t played with much and want to learn a bit more about. So out came the Lensbaby and on went the heart ring. I set up a few candles and focused on the closest. The points of light from the ones in the background take on the shape of the aperture cutout. This was fun, but I have a lot more work to do with it to achieve the results that i’ve seen elsewhere.

Here are some much better examples…

Shaped apertures – a set on Flickr

And this one, on a video, is hysterical….