Lensbaby « Holly Sisson Photography

November 6, 2007

The Hearts of Abby: Family Photography, Toronto, Ontario

Filed under: Family Photography,Lensbaby — Holly @ 10:18 am

Today, continuing the sneak peek for the O-Family, I thought I would upload one of the ‘heart’ photos. This was shot with a lensbaby G3 lens, which is a selective focus lens. A heart shaped creative aperture disk is installed which causes the specular highlights to show up as hearts. The hearts don’t show up as strongly as they would have if we’d had a background of out-of-focus lights, but you can see them all around, if you look. My Hearts & Stars blog post shows a clearer example of how well the shapes can show up if the specular highlights are more pronounced.

I hope you like the hearts Abby! 🙂

Comments (2)

November 3, 2007

Stars & Hearts

Filed under: Blog,Lensbaby,Life — Holly @ 12:13 am

Playing with the lensbaby lens with the star-shaped creative aperture disk installed. It changes all out of focus points of specular highlights (bright points of light) to stars.

The following are with the heart shaped aperature disc installed. They are a bit grainy due to the low light…it is getting darker earlier, and the days are about to get dark an hour earlier!

My son, goofing around, makes it looks like he’s scared of the hearts…they’re coming for him! lol

Comments (2)

November 2, 2007

Halloween

Filed under: Blog,Lensbaby,Life — Holly @ 12:32 pm

Some photos from halloween, first a couple from the Halloween Parade at school:

Rebecca, in her Goth outfit/make-up:

Noah, in his put together creepy costume:

On the way to trick-or-treating. Lensbaby lens with the star creative aperture disk, which turns points of light into stars: (I attempted to make a Halloween shaped disk, but ran out of time…maybe next year!) (edited to add: I forgot that I had these cool Halloween borders from Pink Ink Studios!)

Here are a few of Rebecca and Alison. It was quite dark at this point so the photos are rather grainy due to high iso setting on the camera. All of shots, from Halloween night, are shot with the lensbaby lens, with the star aperature disk installed.

Various Halloween pumpkins from the night:

Until next year…happy halloween!

Comments (4)

November 1, 2007

Baby ‘N’ Part II: Newborn Photography, Toronto, Ontario

Filed under: Family Photography,Lensbaby,Newborn Session — Holly @ 8:59 pm

Part two of the baby ‘N’ newborn shoot included the whole family! (Part one is here, and the maternity shoot, with mom, is on my old blog here and here!)

I finally have your sneak peek ready Malini! (with 14 shots no less!)

First off a matching photo to the maternity shoot:

Love this one of beautiful mom, holding her newborn baby:

And here’s some of just baby ‘N’:

I LOVE this shot, as it so reminds me of when my children were babies, and I learned the trick of letting the baby suck on your finger. Funny how all babies seem to get the same frown on their face too! It’s so cute! 🙂

Love this moment between Mom, baby and his older brother:

Here are two with Dad and the older son:

They had a fabulous bathroom, and a great old fashioned tub, so big brother put on his swim suit and we did some bath tub shots, the first one was shot with the lensbaby lens:

Love this one of Dad and baby ‘N’:

And one of the whole family!

Comments (2)

October 28, 2007

Urban Couple Shoot: Couple Photography, Toronto, Ontario

Filed under: Couple Shoot,Lensbaby — Holly @ 9:13 pm

It’s Jeff & Krista’s anniversary tomorrow (Happy Anniversary!!!!), and my father’s birthday, and an anniversary of my own as well…guess I won’t forget your anniversary next year J & K!

We did a cool urban photo shoot yesterday afternoon…we managed to avoid the rain, which was fortunate as it was so windy!

Here are some of the photos:

Here is Krista, at the beginning of the shoot.