I’ve been shooting with my LensBaby Sol 45 this past week. I felt a need to shake things up a bit! As you will no doubt have observed, I like to achieve tack sharp focus so the 3.5 fixed aperture of this lens kind of gets me panicking - in a good way!! To get up close I add a macro filter - choosing between +1, +2, +4 or +10 so there’s a lot of experimenting going on! Once the filter is attached to my lens, the creative part starts. With the 3.5 aperture I am going to have a very shallow depth of field so I have to decide where, in the image, I want my sharpness. I was still at my desk until 8pm last night making up for the good hour in the middle of the day when I had been playing with the lens and the filter options!
There’s no technical message here - just the recommendation that from time to time we exit our comfort zone and experiment. It is amazing how, by challenging ourselves, we produce refreshing, creative images and - technically, by observing the results of the choices we make, we simultaneously fine tune our craft and those essential observation skills!
Here’s an Iris from my garden which patiently sat as my subject yesterday! I chose the uppermost point of the Iris as my focal point.
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