Creative 52: Weekly Projects to Invigorate Your Photography Portfolio by Adler Lindsay

Author:Adler, Lindsay [Adler, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2013-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

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Finally, to enhance the “old photo” look, I used the Split Toning tab in Lightroom to add warmth to the shadows and desaturate the color tones.

A combination of lighting, styling, and the Lensbaby achieved the dark, mysterious, and painterly look I was going for!

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Tilt-Shift and Lensbaby Lenses

Tilt-shifts and Lensbabys, although they produce different effects, are often grouped as creative lenses because of the unusual focus control and blur they allow. These depth-offield effects have been present since early view cameras and are another level of control and creativity for a photographer. Without bellows, however, 35mm cameras cannot achieve this effect unless you use a tool like a tilt-shift or Lensbaby lens.

Tilt-shift lenses allow you to physically move the lens relative to the film plane and thus vary the plane of focus. They allow two different types of movement: one parallel to the film plane, called shift , and the other rotating relative to the film plane, called tilt . Tilt can be used to create surreally narrow depth of field and to simulate a miniature scene; or it can be used in the opposite manner, to get everything in the scene completely in focus. Shift is used in architectural photography to help combat the keystoning effect , when parallel lines seem to converge in a scene and therefore inaccurately represent the straight lines of architecture.

Lensbaby offers a wide range of lenses that produce different effects, including the two that I recommend: the Sweet 35 and the Edge 80. The Composer Pro’s ball-and-socket design allows you to manipulate the lens at all angles to change the focus and move the sweet spot of the image around the frame. (The Composer Pro is the base, and the Sweet 35 and Edge 80 are just two of the optics you can add to it.) Many Lensbaby products function by creating a sweet spot that creates a circle of focus in the frame, throwing everything else in the frame into soft focus. Aperture is controlled by dials in the lenses and is not automatically detected by the camera. Instead, you must manually control both the exposure and the focus. And the aperture does not have the same effect on depth of field as it does in traditional lenses. Instead, the aperture affects the field of focus—in other words, how wide the sweet spot of focus is. At f/2.8, the sweet spot will be very small, producing a large amount of blur and a painterly effect in the frame. At f/16, however, the field of focus is much wider, with only subtle blurs at the edges.

Caution: These lenses are manual focus and require patience to master. Tiny movements of the camera or lens may render the image completely out of focus and undesirable. Practice and experiment by making adjustments, and learn your gear before trying a full-on shoot.

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