Two more candid portraits in my experiment with selective focus.

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Mar 292012
 
Beautiful blond woman in front of graffiti covered metal wall in San Francisco

Yesterday I posted a candid street portrait taken with a bellows lens by Lensbaby in the mission district in San Francisco.

Here are two more photos from my experimenting that I think hold up. They are a lot more dramatic in their effect, as they were taken at a wide open aperture. (yesterdays shot was f 8) With a bellows lens and a wide open aperture, the amount of detail in the photo that is truly in focus is paper thin. If you like that effect of not is another story, but I think it works in these two.

Beautiful blond woman in front of graffiti covered metal wall in San Francisco

Brown hair brown eye selective focus intense look

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Alex Schoenfeldt. San Francisco Bay Area Photographer.

San Francisco Street Photography, Guardian Angles 16th and Mission, taken with a bellows lens.

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Mar 292012
 
San Francisco Street Photography, Guardian Angles 16th and Mission, taken with a bellows lens.

Today I was walking around the Mission in San Francisco getting some random street shots with a trick lens on my camera. The lens is made by a company called Lensbaby. It has bellows on it and it rotates in strange ways, creating interesting effects with focus.

I had lots of fun with the lens, and I got some weird shots, but this was the one that I think holds up the most on it’s photographic merits, and not just because it has trick effects.

San Francisco Street Photography, Guardian Angles 16th and Mission, taken with a bellows lens.

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