Seems like everywhere I look I'm seeing LensBaby photos. In magazines, in advertisements, on websites, on Flickr, on Youtube, it's really becoming fairly mainstream. A couple years ago it was a curiosity, now it seems like every photographer has at least one stashed in the camera bag "just in case". The scene has to be one that's conducive to the effect. I don't think anyone would use it as their goto lens. It's fun, it's a diversion, it's something to play with. B&H Photo has forty plus items listed under the heading of Lensbaby. Okay, there are duplicates. A Lensbaby Composer for a Canon mount, a Nikon mount, a Pentax mount, a Sony Alpha mount, etc. There's twenty nine accessories you can buy for them. What was a novelty three years ago has become an industry. Just in case you haven't run across a Lensbaby, it a lens that produces a primarily out of focus image with a very specific area that's in focus. In the simplest form you hold it similar to a normal lens, but you deflect the front by using your hands to torque the front element. It's not difficult, because the center of the body of the lens is made of flexible material. I looked at a few Lensbaby images and thought I might be able to do something similar in Adobe Photoshop. I don't think it matters which "CS" version you have. It'll probably work in any recent iteration. If you might be interested in what I did to simulate the Lenbaby effect, hit the "read more".
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