{"id":255,"date":"2011-05-06T16:14:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickspicscorner.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2012-07-02T02:24:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T07:24:52","slug":"the-latest-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/the-latest-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 21 April I picked up the pinhole optic for my Lensbaby Composer.\u00a0 Unfortunately, 21 April was also the middle of the end-of-semester crunch, which hasn’t left me much time to play with my new toy.\u00a0 I’m happy to report at this point I have 1 more project component left for my Art History class (which will be done later today) and only 1 more exam left this semester.\u00a0 Today I was going to do some serious playing with it, but got caught up in work-related duties, but I’m happy to report that I did take a few photos of the same subject while experimenting with different exposures and tilts of the optic.\u00a0 Here is what I think was the best photo:<\/p>\n

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Since the pinhole itself is literally a hole, I quickly realized that tilting the Lensbaby wasn’t really going to give me a “sweet spot.” Turning the focusing ring gave me a little bit of zoom, but no change in focus because there is no glass.\u00a0 Given that the sheer curtains diffuse the light, the softening effects from the optic were seemingly intensified, for an overall softness that, to me at least, reminds me of the morning mind fog after you have opened your eyes fully from a sound sleep.\u00a0 Please don’t mind the 2 spots on the photo – it looks like I may have a little dust on the sensor.\u00a0\u00a0 It has been a while since I’ve cleaned it.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking I’m going to have a lot of fun with this optic if I can get an opportunity to play with it some more.\u00a0 New toys can be so much fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 21 April I picked up the pinhole optic for my Lensbaby Composer.\u00a0 Unfortunately, 21 April was also the middle of the end-of-semester crunch, which hasn’t left me much time to play with my new toy.\u00a0 I’m happy to report at this point I have 1 more project component left for my Art History class […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}