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A Plane Trip Between California and Colorado

Published: Fri, Apr 05, 2019
Written by GizellaN
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Categories: Blog, Family Trips, Landscape, Lensbaby, Photography, USA
Tags: aerial photography, From the Air, USA

We decided to spend most of Spring Break with grandparents in Colorado. I really like taking images from airplanes, and I got lucky again with a window seat. For the first time I also tried some of my Lensbaby lenses for this aerial photography, and I think I created some very interesting images.  🙂 The one lens I didn’t care for in the air was the Burnside. After a few pictures I switched it out to something else. I liked the Twist 60 and the Sol 45 the most.

Here is a set of images taken between Orange County and Denver, CO. Except for the first four, they are all Lensbaby images. I think the first and last two of this set show a great contrast between where we live now (OC), and where we used to live (CO). The first two images I took moments after we took off, and the last two moments prior to landing. Very different views, aren’t they? (Hover over the slideshow and click the Next arrow to advance the images.)

Just for fun, here are those first and last two images one more time:

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My Final Thoughts on the Traveling Burnside Project

Published: Wed, Aug 01, 2018
Written by GizellaN
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Categories: Blog, Burnside 35, Hungary, Lensbaby, Lensbaby Traveling Burnside Project, Photography, Recommendations, USA
Tags: Burnside 35, Hungary, Lensbaby, Photography, USA
In the spring of 2018 I was extremely happy to find out that I was one of the chosen Traveling Burnside Project participants. I was given a Lensbaby Burnside 35 lens to take pictures with partially in the United States, and then in Hungary as well.
I took all my Lensbaby lenses on my trip to Europe, and one zoom lens. Surprisingly, I left the Burnside on my camera for most of the time, and not just because of the project. I liked how light my gear was, I liked looking for the right subjects for the lens, and I started becoming more efficient with manual focusing as well. I found that certain topics didn’t work for me with this lens, but many others did. Obviously, the same can be said about any lens. I loved finding subjects where I could utilize the swirly effect.
I have been writing about my experience with the lens (all posts here), but as the end of the project approached I felt I should give my final thoughts about it.
First, I want to tell you where I felt I was most successful with the lens. I absolutely loved certain floral images the lens created. Utilizing the wide open aperture and the highest vignette setting I’ve created flower images that really wowed me. Some of the following pictures were created strictly with the Burnside, for others I used a +4 or +10 macro filter. My post-process tools were Lightroom, On1 Effects, and rarely Photoshop.
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