Bench and Lensbaby

The Lensbaby is a new and unique tool.  It can create some cool looking images.  It is tricky to learn but with time and patience you can get pretty creative with it.

I saw this shot while photographing flowers at the Leonard J Buck Garden in Far Hills NJ.  I bent the Lenbaby such that it created this dizzying effect.  I used the f/2.8 ring to really cut back on the DOF.  In post, I selected only the bench area for sharpening.