Lily of the Valley - D700, Lensbaby Composer Pro, Fish-eye optic

The ‘lily of the valley’ are starting to hit their peak now and I have been checking them out daily looking for a different way to shoot them this year. I broke out the Lensbaby fish-eye optic and crawled around the patch looking for an interesting composition. Here is one of my early shots with the fish-eye. Not an easy lens to use, you got to get REAL close to make an interesting composition. Had to resort to “Live View” to make the composing easier and make sure I was in focus, getting harder to focus as I get older. Yes that’s a small spider that appeared for this shot only.

Some layering and masking with different blend modes was done to make this into more of a paperweight image.

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