52 Week Project | Patience

This week’s theme for the 52 week project was patience. What better way to incorporate patience than with a dog who’s attention is hard to capture while freelensing?

Luckily for me, Bender’s attention was captured by the people coming and going at the elementary school, so I didn’t need to have a lot of patience waiting for the look from him. The freelensing, that’s a whole other patience! The lenses aren’t attached to the camera body, which means they can be used like a tilt and shift style lens. The toughest part is manually focusing and manipulating the focal plane to keep a moving subject in focus.

First off I used a couple of the 28mm freelenses (I have 4 of them!), though the look wasn’t quite wasn’t what I wanted to achieve.

*Those spiffy white blobs on some of the images are natural light leaks. They happen when the barrel of the freelens (which isn’t attached to the body of the camera) is angled enough to allow light to leak in to the sensor. The dark edges are actually the barrel of the lens coming into the frame. 

Since the backyard is a little cluttered (nice van and some lovely things at the neighbors) I wanted a tighter shot with more of the freelens tilt shift look. So enter in the collection of 50mm freelenses (I’ve got 7 of them!). The results were more what I had been looking for.

And a normal shot of the handsome Mr. Bender.

Next up visit Kim with BARKography based in Charlotte NC while on location in Cannon Beach, Oregon to see how she incorporated patience into her images.