"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
The snows really started to kick up this afternoon but close to 5PM there was a knock on the door and there stood the postman with a package for me. Inside was the soft focus optic for my Lensbaby Composer.
So what to do? I found a couple of reasonable looking carnations left over from last weekend and set out to give the Lensbaby + Soft Focus a whirl. This is a sample of the images made. This one was shot at 5.0 sec @ f/5.6; ISO 100; -2/3 EV. Background was black velvet and the lighting was overhead but dialed way back.
Camera was the 30D; lens obviously the Lensbaby Composer w/ Soft Focus Optic; tripod mounted.
I did enough processing to this image to consider posting it over in OOTB. Minor adjustments to exposure, blacks, clarity, vibrance and saturation were made in Lightroom. Then I dumped the image into CS4 where I ran it through Topaz Adjust and Topaz Detail (did not use presets in either) to bring back just a little of the detail (remember it is a soft focus optic). I finished it off with just a little USM and NR along with a slight contrast adjustment. This is what I ended up with.
Thoughts?






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