Photographers used to do crazy things like smear petroleum jelly on their lenses to create interesting photos, but thanks to the Lensbaby Omni you can get those same effects without plopping goo on your glass. Join Chris and Jordan for some creative photography.
Cue thousands of completely tasteless and tacky photos masquerading as “Art”. A panacea for the crap photographer. A gimmick I thought was lost to the sands of time, but NO, the ‘70s just had to come back and torture me.
If I were to finance a startup, the first thing I would want is to steal employees from LensBaby. Their marketing is beyond incredible. They have taken all the technical defects which larger optical manufacturers spend huge amounts of money and man-hours eliminating, included as many of them as possible into a product, and been hugely successfully marketing them as a feature :)
NOBODY smeared Vaseline on their lenses. If they not were extremely dumb. They smeared Vaseline on their UV filters. And this, compared to the crap shown here, was a MUCH better idea.
What I was most impressed by was that Chris was able to keep a straight face when he said "very interesting" at the beginning of the video to describe this junk, and that he mostly stayed in character throughout. #crapfor99dolla
Crap! What is this? Never seen any less interesting pieces of glass. The idea is neat. But, Lensbaby usually can do better. Go back to the drawing board and make something more useful.
Totally remember stretching panty hose over my camera lenses for diffusion. It really helped soften out the skin wrinkles. Light tan hose to brighten. Black hose to enhance shadows.
+1. Also buying some used larger haze/clear filters and using a reducer. I had over a dozen of those with different scratches, star, straight, circular, etc and also some had different color plastic gel filter with different patterns for different effects. I still use then every so often.
Dust off those filters! Young photographers have started holding glass balls, chandelier crystals and other clear objects in front of their lenses to distort and color the light. Stack two or three filters and you will blow their minds.
If photography is limited by the imagination of the person behind the camera then this may push back the boundaries for those who desire creative expression.
Using the magnet positioning system it seems too easy to accidentally tilt one of the glass attachments into the camera lens and scratch a front element.
the part of this being made of actual glass and finger prints will make it smudgy - well , come on , it is just additional (free) distortion pattern ...and the ever-present phrase : "fun to use" , missing : "takes small space to store in drawer "
When shooting Sinar I had a glass plate infront of the lens. used baby oil or vaseline or vaseline plus powder etc to make JUST the effect I wanted. Thta procedure was everyday when clients wanted for instance some soft area / place for letters in an ad. How could these Young guys know about those actions, they are used to do everything with 0 and 1.
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Fujifilm's latest prime, the XF 18mm F1.4 R LM WR, is a solidly built lens that we've really enjoyed shooting with. It's also a big departure from Fujifilm's previous 18mm F2 prime lens – get a sense of how it handles right here.
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