Never heard of it, thanks for sharing!

It’s have too much specific effect for using for stock photography, use it for year but never for stock… too much rejects

nice! i like these kind of lenses.. what do the agencies think about? did you get a response yet?

By agencies do you mean the ‘micros’? I think these would be better placed with traditional agencies, perhaps with RM licences even where the blurring is masking identities.

I was considering getting one of those babies myself, but I never thought it would sell on microstock – some tend to really dislike any blur.

Hi Yuri, is it the Composer you used on the Girls Will Be Girls photo?
May be on the others too?

Wau! Excellent images. I was thinking about those lenses, but I couldn’t find any useful way, how to use them. Now I can see, that those lens can be really cool, if you know, how to use and what shoot.

Interesting post – How can we make good pictures from cheap stuff(lens)…
Maybe I should buy a Lensbaby and try this.

Thanks for sharing!

When wil be the premier of Your next part of your videoblog?

I love my lens baby and I made some very interesting fotos and also won a contest with one picture

Lensbaby does nothing that Photosphop couldn´t do…

absolutely love lensbaby…… actualy just recently traded in my 3G for composer….love the noew one

Thats a pretty neat shot Addi, good work! The only reason I would probably prefer a lens baby over PS though is the extra step in Post. I already semi-loathe the post process anyway, due to the fact that I am overly obsessed with perfection, and sometimes overcook :-/

I love working with the lensbaby, too. Your pictures are very nice! I like it!

Almost all of them will be rejected if your name is not Yuri … Never mind for Stock Photos.

Hi
thanks for sharing, I am trying to buy one since 4 month, but I cant find it, can you please tell me where can I buy it?
thanks
regards

Actually, I have noticed that blur is treated by the people differently in different countries.
It is just almost impossible to see any blur in any booklet or ad in Latvia – it is treated like bad quality of photo or just bad taste, but then I came to Norway… and I haven’t seen any exception: in almost all printed materials I could find at least one shot with intentially made blur.
So, this is really question of taste, traditions, etc.
Possibly, that’s the reason why in Finland, for instance, we can find own image stocks.

So, yes, there is a niche for lensbabies. How to find it?

Lensbaby…..what a unique lens
I wanted to buy it last year, but suddently I broke my EOS 350D
Finally I spent the money to fix my camera

I just got a lensbaby Composer and used it to make some lightblur backgrounds that I uploaded to two microstock sites. They’ve been selling multiple times a day on one of the sites for the past two weeks since I uploaded them. They were rejected outright by another site for “too many similar images already in our collection.” It’s a fun lens to use but also requires a lot of trial and error to get the look you want. I’m still experimenting but I agree that some of the shots may be more appropriate for RM on the macro sites, while others seem to be the type of thing that’s right for the micros–well, for some of them anyway.