I haven’t been able to visit Chromasia for a few days, so have been catching up...

Hope all the family are doing well!

Great pic! Very ‘Chromasia’! I love the way tilt shift can make a shot already having perspective undulate and twist across the page.

You've made great use of the lensbaby - I need to get mine out more :) Great colours and composition :)

wow. interesting colours you've used here.

One good reason for me NOT to get a lensbaby and one good reason for me to play with selective color tool. I just can't get my head around the focus (lack thereof) issue...makes me feel drunk. Love those colors though!

Dave,
This is wonderful creative image.
The selective color is superb.
I have been thinking on getting the lensbaby 2.0 but I am not sure I will be using it enough... Is this effect not easy to accomplish with PS?

I just don't want to spend the money for something I can probably teach myself in PS. What is your opinion?

Thanks!

I really like the image. A little creepy to tell you the truth, but I definately still like it.

when i first looked at the picture, i thought i was looking at a 3-D photograph. how did you do it?

woah...

I usually like the Lensbaby effect when there's at least a little bit of something in the shot that's focused, but here I can't find anything that is. Am I missing it? I do like your color combinations, though.

It looks like lensbaby is a challenging tool to use, or at least my goals would have been different from yours. To me it seems as if the wrong parts are in focus - - nonetheless, I applaud your continual efforts at experimentation, and there's really no reason you should only share your successes. Let's all learn together!

Judith, I think the grass about a foot ahead of the daughter is focused.

Can someone please explain what a lensbaby is?

A really great composition. It is very eerie. A sorta alien-plant, lizoid-perspective kinda shot. Of course, none of that would be there except for your daughter's action and expression. Put this one in your post-processing pipe and smoke it! Does this indicate djn is off on a new creative bent?

Beth, a lens baby is a lens at the end of a flexible tube, basically - - try to imagine a flexible periscope?

The black holes that are her eyes and mouth turn this from eerie to downright creepy. It kind of looks like a "what's going on in his head" scene from a movie about a serial killer.

Not that that's a bad thing, if that's the effect you were going for. :-)

I love it!

Ha ha, when I saw this my first reaction was "lensbaby"! Great abstract, love this shot.

Ahh the lensbaby. Which one do you have the 2.0? or the original. I've been batting around the idea of buying one, I mean I guess I could postprocess to acheive teh same look but it just isn't the same.

Nice colors, is the vigenetting part of the lens baby or was that through post processing?

Im amazed by your photography. It is amazing.

Interesting effect, i would have liked to have had the face in focus if that was possible, cool colours though.

Cool picture!
You know, the longer you stare at it, somehow, the picture looks as if it's wobbling. Cool eh?!

Cute kid you've got there!

Quite a cool effect, but still I dont think I want one...

hmm, I love the fact that you're experimenting & 'pushing the envelope' but this one just doesn't do it for me, I think I would have liked Rho in focus rather than the grass (I guess that ain't easy with a lens baby & a fast moving child tho)

It does make my eyes go funny looking at it! Oh and the top right corner of sky looks almost like you've appled an inner shadow or something, probably to do with the shape of the cloud.

Um, could you explain how the "selective colour" tool works? I love the way the focus undulates through this image. Of course this is all due to the camera lens, not the photographer. Great shot, I think it good that Rhown is out of focus.

VelviaPix: yes, you could get much the same result in Photoshop as you would with a Lensbaby, but it wouldn't be anywhere near as much fun.

maria: this is the effect you get with the Lensbaby.

Judith: the grass at the front of the image and the fronds at the back are both in focus - near enough - but I quite like the sense of movement in this one.

Frank: I did take some shots where Rho was in focus but they didn't give the same sense of movement as this one.

Sharla: I'm not sure where I'm heading at the moment. Time will tell.

Leo: I added a vignette.

tobias: the Selective Color tool is intended for use with CMYK images and allows you to selectively alter the reds, yellows, cyans, and so on. It also allows you to globally change the highlights, midtones and shadows. Basically, you can set the amount of cyan, magenta, yellow and black of each of these colours.

I would give my right eye to watch you tone one of these images. (I shoot with the left)

This images is so striking! Very dreamy but dark. It makes me want to get a lens baby.

I must admit that you do seem to be a very good advert for lensbaby. The movement in this shot is great. I will try the CMYK. See what happens. Cheers Dave.

Right, sorry. Just tried it. Mode>CMYK. Then went image>adjustments>selective colour. I adjust the various colours and unlike levels or whatever nothing seems to change (you normally get a preview, as the adjustments occur). How do I apply this selective colour?

Sorry, I am not that hot on CS.

Wow, the colours are perfect and you really used the Lensbaby for good.

tobias: sorry, I wasn't very clear. You don't need to convert to CMYK, just use it in RGB mode. What I was trying to say is that the Selective Color tool is particularly useful for CMYK images, but there's certainly no need to be in that mode to use it.

it is a nice use of the lens, but somehow most of your children photos are in a bit dark and gothic style. i personally prefer your nature photos.
thanks for making comments and letting us know how you post process your photos. very useful.

Neat shot, David. I have a lensbaby, but I'm always reluctant to use it because my eyesight is so poor i have a hard time finding a decent focus spot. But this shot is nice because it shows you don't really need to have a centered focus spot to have a decent picture.

Thanks everyone.

Great photo. I particularly like the sense of movement and your effective use of photoshop to enhance the natural colours. Chromasia!

Wow..what a beautiful pic in motion! How did you ever do that? YOU are one of the best photobloggers I have seen and I would feel more honored if you stop by and visit mine since I left you so many comments on yours... =-)

:-)

quite mysterios i might say 8)

I love the selective color. I think the blur was a good touch as well. this little girl is the perfect child to tke photographs of you can capture the escence of her child-like free state of mind. this would be one that I would size it up, frame it and put it in the big time art galleries if you haven't aready! How did you come about this photograph?

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