LENBABYLAND
ADJUST AS NEEDED: A LENSBABY GALLERY
The Lensbaby family of fully manual art lenses, introduced in 2005, allow photographers to creatively engineer selective focus, ultra-wide vistas, dramatic macros, warm, glowy portraits and even the antique look of 19th-century pinhole cameras into their images……all in-camera, all without the need for post-processing software. The company’s slogan “see in a different way” perfectly conveys the entire idea of LB optics, in that they reinsert the freedom and the choice into one’s photographs in a much more personal way than conventional lenses can. Here are a few of the effects, from the precise to the painterly, that are achievable with these amazingly innovative tools, with the specific gear used for each one listed after the title: