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[LeeP]

At the moment, I am not finding a lot that truly excites me visually, so I put the Lensbaby Sweet 22 on my R100 and shot random things like this empty shopping cart abandoned in the middle of a road adjacent to an open field. I skewed the contrast. I do things like this whenever I feel dead-ended creatively, not because I think the result will be sooooo amazing, but just to force the cogs to turn.

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[March411]

Very cool and random grab Lee!

Not sure why but as soon as I opened up the image full size it made me smile. Shopping cart in the middle of nowhere but it looks like it belongs there......

[LeeP]

I was going to go back and shoot it conventionally but in the time I drove home to switch out the lens and return, not more than 10 minutes later, it was gone.

As soon as I saw it originally I was like "da##it I have the Lensbaby lens on my camera."

My daughter thought I was silly switching out the lens and hurrying back. I very nearly bought my Pentax 17 with me for the random drive around and I am no kicking myself for not doing so.

I have a love/hate relationship with the Lensbaby Sweet 22. The focus fall off is extreme--it's obviously marketed that way--but it's extremely extreme on an R8. 

[March411]

I have to say I like what the Sweet 22 provided on this frame, fate must have agreed since it was gone.

[LeeP]

@March411 My daughter suggested color skewing the original. Sharpness, saturation, and contrast maxed out with highlights reduced 50%.

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[March411]

That's pretty wild @LeeP, I like it! All the leading lines bring you back to the cart. This image would have sold big in the 70's 

What did your daughter think of the end result? 

[LeeP]

She thought it was pretty wild. It feels like I need to turn my genuine Lava Lites on to enjoy it. Thanks for putting up with the foolishness. Whenever I am not getting traction creatively, I will wreck a few images just to be doing something "creative". I believe that those "good creative" moments happen among many moments of attempted creativity where the result is "meh".

[srtr100]

Objects outside of their natural environments sometimes make for interesting photo. A shopping cart in the desert, rather than at the grocery store is a fine example.