Rainy Day project -- Lensbaby Composer

Today was looking quite soggy so I figured it was a great time to try out my new Composer from Lensbaby. I have a 3G Lensbaby but have never found it easy enough to use to make it a regular in my camera bag. When Sam showed me the Composer at PMA I was very impressed. It's a no-brainer to operate with a simple focus ring and a front element you can simply point where you want. But how are the images...

I'm really still getting the hang of how to use the "pointing" feature and of course manual focus is always a little tricky with limited depth of field, but for a first quick experiment I was quite pleased. The accompanying photo was taken with a dark overcast sky hand-held (remember there is no VR with the Lensbaby so I cranked the ISO up to 1100 to make sure I wasn't dealing with any motion blur on my part). I'm quite excited by the very nice blur the background gets and how dramatic the effect can be. I'll be posting more on the Composer and Wide-angle accessory as I get a chance to do more with it.

You can purchase theLensbaby The Composer for Canon EF mount Digital SLR Cameras or the Lensbaby The Composer for Nikon F mount Digital SLR Cameras from Amazon for $269. I'll definitely be bringing mine to Texas and Alaska and be posting more images as I learn more abou it.