What is a Lensbaby selective focus lens?

Summer picnic 1, originally uploaded by Otto Phokus.

I thought I might as well keep posting tonight while I am thinking about these things I have been wanting to blog about.

Look at this picture and you see the center of the picture is in focus and both sides are out of focus, there you go, selective focus. You manually squeeze the lens, or compress the lens in and out, back and forth until you find your sweet spot. This picture I used a 2.8 aperture diaphram that you have to manually insert into the lensbaby lens. And then all the settings are manual, like the speed... there is not Auto Focus, or Otto Phokus in my pun of a name.

This is a soft looking blur, not quite as sharp as some of the higher aperture disks. I thought for this party since I will be inside and outside, and overcast day I will use a lower aperture that lets in more light. Well I did get some good pictures, but I think of my pictures as little paintings, that some day I will get to watercolor, or paint when I have the time years from now.

I heard one person speak of a similar photo/composition he took with this depth of field, focus, and he stated that he could get a picture of his three son in focus playing baseball. The pitcher, batter, and catcher, all in focus, where normally they would not all be in focus.

I have a lot of fun using this lens the lensbaby 2.0, and the lensbaby 3G for static multiple shots you have to set up or compose, and I also have the macro lenses, the wide angle, and 1.6x telephoto adapter for the lensbaby lens. I haven't used a regular lens since I have this now almost 8 months, and I have some nice regular lenses. To me it makes digital photography a lot of fun.

iPhone Home Page 3 - Japanese Language and Photography reference page

Here is a screen shot of my iPhone Home page number 3. I have a lot of useful Japanese Language reference applications, and study aids. This along with my "Kanji as Art" theme is helping me learn a little bit of Japanese, and also Chinese languages. I also have some books, texts that are very good too. I should have my Art table cleared off this weekend, then I can start practice writing the Kangi, and Kana scripts. I also have two photography reference applications on this page. The one marks your gps location for later use with the picture, and the other helps you choose the correct exposure, aperture, ... and almost made for film, but very helpful for taking manual pictures with my DSLR. The iFlippr app has some Japanese, and Chinese flip cards.

I blogged about this earlier, about how I verified for a guy that his Tattoo in Kanji, actually meant "Eternal Life" in Chineese too. I used my iPhone application, Jishabot.
The iPhone screen shot at the top today is of the Kanji Flip iPhone application. The Kanji shown is "South".