Carnations and bottles

Spent some time today with the opera glass lens again. We had a vase of carnations around the house so I grabbed them to shoot. I also added a few liquor bottle to round out the still life.

Such crazy narrow depth of field and blur around the edges. I want to take this lens outside to see how it does landscapes.

Close up madness!

So much blur

Double exposure is nice

 

Looks like broccoli

I need to buy Kris new opera glasses

I made a lens for my Graflex Speed Graphic out of a broken pair of opera glasses. It’s a simple, one element lens. My rough calculations make it to be 63mm and f3.2.

The first images came out nice. I will experiment more. I definitely want to stop it down to f8 or f11.

Shot on Fomapan 200. Developed in MC-TEA.

American Girl Doll horse

A little closer look

Foam core lens board

The whole thing