Photography

Tried the Burnside on a Moving Object (Traveling Burnside Project)

Published: Thu, Jul 05, 2018
Written by GizellaN
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Categories: Blog, Burnside 35, Lensbaby, Lensbaby Traveling Burnside Project, Photography
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 Well, it didn’t really work. I couldn’t focus fast enough with the manual lens. I am very used to the autofocus, in fact, I use the back-focus on my camera, which is even more efficient. This short video is of my friend and her adorable doggy, Fuge. While they played catch, I took a few photos of Fuge. (I used the Burnside lens for the video as well.)
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Hay Bales (Lensbaby vs. Nikon) (Traveling Burnside Project)

Published: Wed, Jul 04, 2018
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Categories: Blog, Burnside 35, Hungary, Lensbaby, Lensbaby Traveling Burnside Project, Photography
Tags: Burnside 35, Hungary, Lensbaby
Two years ago I discovered a field with hay bales just a few minutes from my parents’ house. Last year I had huge plans of taking pictures of them right after I arrived to Hungary. I walked to the field on my first day, and found nothing. They had already collected the bales. This year I got lucky; they were still at the field, and I was able to take a few comparison shots. I took the Lensbaby Burnside 35 and the Nikon 35mm lenses with me.
The following two images are out of the camera, no editing. They were taken almost from the same spot, a few minutes apart, both at F5.6 aperture.
Burnside 35
Nikon 35
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Touring a Small Town at the Balaton Lake (Traveling Burnside Project)

Published: Sun, Jul 01, 2018
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Categories: Blog, Burnside 35, Hungary, Lensbaby, Lensbaby Traveling Burnside Project, Photography, Photowalk
Tags: Burnside 35, Hungary, Lensbaby
My daughter and I arrived to Hungary a few days ago. We will be visiting friends and family in July, and I will be taking lots of pictures!
We spent the weekend with my brother at the Balaton Lake. The weather wasn’t good enough for the beach, but it was perfect for taking a long walk. We toured the area after a huge thunderstorm.
I used the Burnside 35 exclusively during the walk. Since I had company, I didn’t record all the data for the images, but all of the pictures were taken with F2.8-F5.6 apertures.
For those of you who don’t like to do post processing, I will show the straight out of the camera pictures first, and the second image will have minor edits in Lightroom.
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Right before we entered the small forest area, I stopped at this train tunnel. I felt that the topic was perfect for the lens (largest vignette used).

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Family Hike (Traveling Burnside Project)

Published: Sun, Jun 24, 2018
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Categories: Blog, Burnside 35, Family Trips, Lensbaby, Lensbaby Traveling Burnside Project, Photography
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Yesterday I took the Burnside 35 with me on a family hike. I usually don’t take pictures of people with a manual lens, therefore I don’t have practice focusing on them quickly. I don’t like to ask people to wait for me while I focus, it makes me nervous when I do that. 🙂
​I said I would post about my not too successful shoots as well; this is one of those posts. The lack of success is not from using the Burnside, but mostly from the lack of practice of manual focusing on people. Here are some of the images I took yesterday:

Here is the one photo that I am happy with:
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A fossil found on a family hike in Southern California.

Flower Photography (Traveling Burnside Project)

Published: Tue, Jun 19, 2018
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Categories: Blog, Burnside 35, Flower Photography, Lensbaby, Lensbaby Traveling Burnside Project, Photography
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Yesterday I met up with a photographer friend for a few minutes at Sherman’s Gardens. This is one of my favorite places to take floral images at. Knowing how much I like getting close to flowers, and that the Burnside 35 only lets me do close ups from 6″, I had ordered some Close up filters. When I left home I saw our mailman by the mailboxes, and I asked him if he maybe had a package for me. Luckily he did, and I was able to try out the Burnside with some magnification.
First I took test shots at a spot where I had taken one with the Sweet 50 before. They weren’t composed exactly the same way, but I liked the Sweet 50 image much more at this place than the Burnside 35. The latter I found too busy even with the vignette.
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