Hi All 👋 Feel free to join in this weekly challenge whenever you find yourself thinking “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how to).
This week’s Fan Of… is my new lensball. In case any of you hadn’t noticed, I recently got a lensball & have set about having fun with it. My guy (Lensy) is a Tensphy 80mm K9 Crystal Ball (Amazon Associate) [click on my pic below].
Hi All 👋 My latest playtime came about form me getting some shots of a bunch of pink carnations for a few challenges; so out came the lensball as well
It took me a while to get dialled in on the flowers with the lensball (the camera was either too close to the lensball, or the lensball was too close to the flowersor both (last 3 pics)), but perseverance pays off!
I did, however, get a few shots on the way home of a snowy path through some treesThe main difficulty was the light levels, and hence quite a slow shutter speed. This of course accentuated any movement, so not all shots came out as desired; out of focus/blurry (last couple of shots).
Hi All 👋 Branching out see’s me still in Cumbernauld House Park. Holding the lensball steady in one hand & the camera in the other is quite tricky; any movement is amplified, leading to out of focus, blurry shots. One potential solution is finding something to place the lensball on, preferably without it rolling away; & so to branches
This week’s Fan Of… is my new Neewer 10+ Macro filter. This was part of a filter kit that I got for my standard 18-55mm Canon lens.
Neewer 10+ macro filter
I was out playing with my new lensball in Cumbernauld House Park, and I sat the lensball on a mossy tree stump to get a couple of shots of Cumbernauld House itself. When I looked down into the lensball, I saw the following…
