Photography

Published: Tue, Jul 17, 2018

Written by GizellaN

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Categories: Blog, Burnside 35, Flower Photography, Lensbaby, Lensbaby Traveling Burnside Project, Photography

Tags: Burnside 35, flower, Lensbaby, Photography

After trying out the Burnside on the gorgeous architecture of Budapest, I’d like to post again about my favorite subject: flower photography.

One day last week I walked around in my dad’s garden and found some very pretty flowers. I added a macro filter to the Burnside lens to be able to get even closer to the blooms. The Burnside allows you to get as close as 6″ from your subject, but adding a +1, +2, +4 or +10 macro filter lets you get even closer. I forgot to record it, but I believe I used the +10 or +4 filter for the first 3 images on this page. They were all shot handheld.

Published: Sun, Jul 15, 2018

Written by GizellaN

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Categories: Blog, Burnside 35, Hungary, Lensbaby, Lensbaby Traveling Burnside Project, Photography

Tags: architecture, Burnside 35, Hungary, Lensbaby, Photography

Another gorgeous morning in Budapest on Saturday… I visited City Park to continue testing the Lensbaby Burnside 35 lens.

The first shot of the day turned out wonderful. I tried a silhouette picture of the Heroes’ Square statues, and this is what I got. I LOVE the birds in the image. Although there is a distortion on the left side, since it is a silhouette, it works for me.
My next stop was a closer image of the statues of the Seven chiefs of the Magyars. I experimented with the different vignette settings, and I’ll let you decide if you prefer this picture with a little or with a lot of vignette.

Published: Sat, Jul 07, 2018

Written by GizellaN

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Categories: Blog, Burnside 35, Flower Photography, Lensbaby, Lensbaby Traveling Burnside Project, Photography

Tags: Burnside 35, flower, Lensbaby, Photography

I checked the bus schedules last night. I put my camera gear together and gathered my clothes as well. I wanted to leave early for the city. (I stay in a suburb of Budapest, where I grew up. I need to travel 45-60 minutes to reach downtown Budapest.)
At 3 am it started raining, and my plans fell through. I am very spoiled by the weather where I live, in Southern California. It barely rains there (not good for the nature, of course), and I can plan photo walks for basically any time. But not in Hungary.
Mid-morning the rain finally stopped, but it stayed cloudy and with a chance of further rain. Instead of going to downtown I stayed and photographed my dad’s flowers. This time I am posting my edited photos only – my photo artistry includes post processing.
All of the below images were taken with the Burnside 35, at F2.8 or F4. Post processing was done in Lightroom, Nik Efex and On1 Effects.

Published: Tue, Jun 19, 2018

Written by GizellaN

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Categories: Blog, Burnside 35, Flower Photography, Lensbaby, Lensbaby Traveling Burnside Project, Photography

Tags: Burnside 35, flower, Lensbaby, Photography

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.

Published: Sat, Jun 16, 2018

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Categories: Blog, Burnside 35, Landscape, Lensbaby, Lensbaby Traveling Burnside Project, Photography, USA

Tags: Burnside 35, landscape, Lensbaby, Little Corona del Mar, Photography

The Lensbaby Burnside lens arrived yesterday. This morning it was low-tide, so I took the Burnside and the Velvet 56 to Little Corona del Mar (Newport Beach, CA), to one of my favorite low-tide places in Southern California.
I tested both lenses facing the same subject at all settings; with the burnside it meant using apertures F16 to F2.8, and with each aperture I used all 4 vignette settings. On the Velvet it was just the various apertures I tried.
My observations: my frame contained some cloudy skies, and with F16, F11, F8 and F5.6 the maximum vignette added too much darkness with the Burnside. I liked the maximum vignette with wider apertures, because what was darkened was also blurry (last two images).