Lensbaby @ Scott's workshop

[PeteQ]

Here's one that came out pretty decent. It's tough to focus under a modeling light so it was kind of a crapshoot, but fun nonetheless....

[OversighT]

Nice shot Pete. How did you manage to get the exposure correct using the studio lights? I tried to take some Lensbaby macro shots of my wife's earrings last night and at 1/250 shutter speed I was still completely blowing out the shot even with the single light turned way down.

T.

[Lanita33]

I'm amazed at how in focus the sweet spot is. Which aperture ring did you use. Also what shutter speed and did you use a tripod? I just got my lensbaby and I've been having so much fun playing with it.

I just ordered the macro attachements, because I really wanted it for flowers.

[PeteQ]

The exposure for that set happened to be close to one of the supplied aperture rings so that was pretty simple. Just like a standard studio shot where you set the lights for a certain f-stop and the shutter speed then just becomes the synch speed, which in this case was 1/250. I think this was set for f/5.6 in this one. This was handheld. Again the studio strobe duration actually becomes your shutter speed so it was in effect probably like a 1/1000 or faster exposure.

This is the original LB. I would eventually like to get the LB 2.0 but this is fine for what I'm laying around with. As I said up top, it was pretty tough to focus as studios tend to be dark so you are trying to focus through a f/5.6 aperture in a dark room... I only took about 6 shots so I was actually pretty happy one came out at all.

[Lensbaby]

Beautiful model, beautiful shot. Shooting the Lensbaby with just dim model lights is indeed a challenge. I'm glad this one came out so fine. Nice sweet spot, and a great display of how sharp the Original Lensbaby can be at f/5.6.

Regards,

Sam