More Practice With My Lensbaby Composer, Double Glass Optic, f5.6

Portsdown Hill. Lensbaby Composer, Double Glass Optic, f5.6, originally uploaded by scalespeeder.

With the nights drawing in earlier and earlier, night photography is about the only way I can get out and shoot after a hard days work - so I grabbed my 350d, my tripod, my Lensbaby Composer and headed for Portsdown Hill.



I only had an hour, so I experimented with some landscape shots towards Portsmouth, but it was a bit too hazy, however this light caught my eye for a bit of an abstract.



I also set up on a bridge over the M27 to get some light-trail effects:

It was a very calm evening, so my light trails didn't suffer from the "wobbliness" of earlier efforts, and my rock-steady Cullmann tripod definitely helped too.

I shot all of these photographs at f5.6, which is a nice compromise in the Lensbaby, where the sweet-spot is large, but the "artistic" blur is still evident.



Cheers, Rob.