Tomorrow Allison, Eva and I will be going with our friends Neil and Andrea on a lighthouse tour on Cape Cod. I wanted to have some special lenses to take with us for the day as well as with us next weekend when we go to a balloon festival. So I looked up lens rental online and found BorrowLenses.com. For $125.00 I was able to rent 2 great lenses. One is the LensBaby 3G and the other is Sigma 8mm Fisheye lens. To purchase these lenses would cost over $800.00 and by splitting the cost with Andrea we each get some time with the lenses to properly test them out for a fraction of the purchase price. And the great thing is that we got them for 2 weeks and the cost included shipping to and from BorrowLenses.com.
I tried out both lenses by taking some photos of Eva. The Photo-A-Day was taken with the LensBaby 3G. Notice how everything is soft and muted with a subtle focus on Eva’s eye. This lens allows you to manually pick your focus.
The Sigma 8mm Fisheye lens is different and gives you a nearly 180 degree view of the field of vision. This is going to be amazing while we photograph lighthouses and hot air balloons. But I practiced on Eva. Here is an example of a photo taken with that lens.
This morning I got up early and headed over to Half Moon Bay to take some photos. I made many stops along the coast, walked out to the ocean and took some photos. I played around with the settings again and I think I might have some dust in my lens or my camera again. I only see it on certain shots however so I think it is lens related. I certainly hope so. At least it is easier to clean off my lenses.
I’ll be uploading the good images when I get a chance. I also took my GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr with me on the trip. I love the device and have the software loaded on my computer at home so I was unable to add the GPS information to the images. I will do that when I get a chance.
I’;m staring at a 5 hour trip ahead of me, in coach in a middle seat. Needless to say I am not that thrilled about it. However when I get home my two lovely ladies will be waiting for me and we are going to be spending the weekend on the Cape. We have a big day on Saturday. We are going with Neil and Andrea and the group from Meetup.com to take photos of lighthouses on the Cape. Andrea and I even rented two lenses for two weeks because next weekend we are all going up to Vermont for a Balloon festival. I rented the lenses from Borrowlenses.com. I’ll be sure to tell you all about the experience once I’ve used the lenses. I can say that they were delivered quickly. They arrived yesterday, unfortunately I was in San Francisco. And guess where they were shipped from? San Francisco!
