Freelensing
I just found about freelensing and can’t wait to try it tomorrow during the day. This is the definition of freelensing according to Luke Roberts:
Photos taken with the lens detached from the camera but held in place and moved around to focus. This also lets extra light in sometimes causing light leaks and giving a vintage look and feel.
Also:
* Gives extra bokeh by shrinking the area in focus (aperture is 0)
* Allows for super macro shots
* Delicious light leaks
* Tilt-shift effects
For some cool freelensing samples (better than mine above) click [Here], [Here] and [Here]
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Mar 8, 2009
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1. Sn3a | March 8th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
i know nothing about lens
but i know that the photo is just perfect
2. croco rock | March 8th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Sorry Mark, but they look shit.
3. Marzouq | March 8th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Interesting, don’t think I can do something like that!
4. TheGirlWithKaleidoscopeEyes | March 9th, 2009 at 4:20 am
I don’t see why you have to detach the lens and go through all that trouble when you can easily get the desired effects you mentioned above with a wide aperture lens.
5. Mathai | March 9th, 2009 at 7:53 am
toni, how bout freelensing while freebasing ? :P
but seriously light leaks look pretty good in the shots, and Mark… “aperture”
6. Jan | March 9th, 2009 at 8:06 am
This is the stupidest idea I ever saw
7. Ahmad | March 9th, 2009 at 9:07 am
I think this will attract lots of dust to your DSLR sensor!
8. Mark | March 9th, 2009 at 9:07 am
TheGirlWithKaleidoscopeEyes: Actually thats not true. The widest aperture lens you can get is like f/1.0 and costs around KD2,000. With freelensing we are talking about an aperture of f/0.0! Now the tilt shift effect you also can’t get that unless you buy a tilt shift lens and that costs like KD350. The light leaks? There is no lens I know of that will produce that effect.
9. Bu Yousef | March 9th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Nice idea… but I think controlling through the aperture achieves the same as mentioned in comment 4.
10. Mark | March 9th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Bu Yousef we both posted at the same time so you missed what I just wrote. Basically there is no way to achieve an aperture of 0 with a lens.
11. Bu Yousef | March 9th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Ah…
I will try it out some time.
12. Mark | March 9th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Well keep in mind shooting with the lens detached from your camera might result in dust getting in so you need to keep a blower hand just in case that happens. I am freelensing with my Nikon D70 but don’t think I would freelens with my D90.
13. Holla | March 9th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Dude just give it up. You will never be a real artist like Anwar.
14. Pinot | March 9th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
LOL. I just thought that you’ll experimenting freelens with your D90 *phew*
15. Holla | March 9th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
freeeeeeeeeeeee baaaaaallin’
16. TheGirlWithKaleidoscopeEyes | March 9th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Or maybe the only reason you got zero aperture is because the lens wasn’t attached to the camera and that’s why the Exif data reads f/0.0!
See this photo’s EXIF data for example http://www.flickr.com/photos/gentlepurespace/3331254779/meta/
17. Mark | March 9th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
I know, because there is no lens in front of the camera u get an aperture of 0, thats one of the advantages to free lensing.
18. TheGirlWithKaleidoscopeEyes | March 9th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Enzain khalna min hatha, how come it produce a so called “light leak” effect when you’re using a digital camera with a sensor w no film inside? Last time I checked light leak meant the over exposed areas from some unwanted light leaking through the cameras body and spoiling some parts of the film.
19. Mark | March 9th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
The light leaks in freelensing occur because light is coming in from the small gap between the lens and the camera.
20. Patrick | March 10th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
fuck. I want to try this out so bad, but I only have my D70 and I really don’t want dust getting into it… sucks…
21. basma al sabah | March 10th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
so you just buy the lens and focus on whatever you want!;p i ALWAYS wanted to do that!;D
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