Here’s a shot of just the ‘girls’ from my family shoot last Sunday.
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! 🙂
I really like it a bit more subtly used, like this. I have a tendency to beat people over the head with effects like that, shooting with an entire christmas tree worth of lights behind the head or something 🙂
Now that gives me an idea – cut a christmas tree shape out of my spare aperture disks – think that’ll be happening this year!
Ok, Gordon, I’m going to have to have a discussion about how and what you use to cut your aperature disks. I wasn’t having much luck with my halloween attempt. Maybe next year!
In keeping with ‘November is blog posting month’, I will be posting sneak peeks of a family shoot I did yesterday throughout the week.
It ended up being a great day, even though we had a bit of rain come down (but made valuable use of the time, as you shall see in the coming days, with the macro shots of the beautiful girls). Here’s a shot I love of the whole group:
Thanks Shannon! I had a great time and captured some wonderful images. Check back over the course of the week for more sneak peeks. 🙂
In keeping with National Blog Posting Month, and my attempts to post every day, I am posting another favorite from my B-Family shoot last month. You can see more, from this shoot, on my old blog here.
I just love the interaction between father and daughter in this photo:
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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
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by Holly