Modified 12-Nov-10
Created 12-Nov-10
21 photos
After the Portland Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade floats have traveled along the parade route they make their final stop along Naito Parkway by the waterfront Fun Center. I had seen this event listed on the Rose Festival calendar in previous years but couldn't come up with a good way to photograph it. This year I had a couple of new lenses that worked out quite well for this type of street event.
These photos were shot with a Nikon D700 (a Full Frame 24X36 DSLR) fitted with either a Sigma 8mm f3.5 EX-DG Circular Fisheye lens or a Lensbaby Composer special effects lens. The Sigma 8mm lens creates a round image in the center of the cameras image field. It has a 180° field of view and because it does not employ any optical correction everything at the perimeter of the round image is very distorted. The Lensbaby special effects lens system can be put on several different camera types and can be fitted with a variety of different Lensbaby optics. This unique lens system allows the lens to tilt and pivot, thus shifting the focal plane of the image. This gives your pictures that unique Lensbaby affect were a part of the image is slightly out of focus and has a stretched or distorted appearance. Tilting and shifting lenses are not new, as this is a common feature in field or view cameras. I have two of the Lensbaby Optics that fit into the Composer lens housing, the Double Glass (sharp fine detailed images) and the Plastic Optics which yields a slightly diffused image. The Plastic Optics creates an image that looks a lot like the photos taken with an inexpensive plastic camera like the Holga or Diana film cameras.
These photos were shot with a Nikon D700 (a Full Frame 24X36 DSLR) fitted with either a Sigma 8mm f3.5 EX-DG Circular Fisheye lens or a Lensbaby Composer special effects lens. The Sigma 8mm lens creates a round image in the center of the cameras image field. It has a 180° field of view and because it does not employ any optical correction everything at the perimeter of the round image is very distorted. The Lensbaby special effects lens system can be put on several different camera types and can be fitted with a variety of different Lensbaby optics. This unique lens system allows the lens to tilt and pivot, thus shifting the focal plane of the image. This gives your pictures that unique Lensbaby affect were a part of the image is slightly out of focus and has a stretched or distorted appearance. Tilting and shifting lenses are not new, as this is a common feature in field or view cameras. I have two of the Lensbaby Optics that fit into the Composer lens housing, the Double Glass (sharp fine detailed images) and the Plastic Optics which yields a slightly diffused image. The Plastic Optics creates an image that looks a lot like the photos taken with an inexpensive plastic camera like the Holga or Diana film cameras.
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