A good friend told me a story about a photographic trip she once took to Mexico. She gad only her one film camera and one lens. She cracked the glass of her one lens and she was devastated. She pushed through the trip with her cracked lens with unexpected and beautiful results. Last night the [...]

  A couple friends recently pointed out my growing collection of skull photos.  Oh me oh my.  Most of these skulls came from a single shoot.  I was trying to see how creepy I could make a little plastic halloween skull my son had left on the floor.  I used some gel filter samples from [...]

Hawaii Beautifully Bent is a collection of photographs taken around the Hawaiian Islands. Bent is the light, the lens distortion and color palette. Photographs were captured with Nikon D200, Nikon D700, and various toy cameras. I used ultra wide angle lenses, regular zooms, old manual Nikkors and modified toy camera lenses mounted on my D200. On camera filters were used including COKIN and Hoya to Adobe Photoshop filters and texture overlays.

DIY Lens Modification of a Kodak Instamatic 33 This is the resulting image using my Nikon D200 and a modified Kodak Instamatic 133 plastic lens.  I have been crazy about the look and feel of the Holga toy camera images and want to try everything on my D200 and D700 to see if I can [...]

In this image I used the heart shaped bokeh filter I created here as an overlay for this Creative Purge on one of my family sessions.  Again, I am loving the dreamy feel of my recent posts. All Content Copyright ©2009 Liisa Roberts Photography and may not be reproduced without expressed written permission. Subscribe in [...]

I found a little project to do in my spare time.  What spare time?  I had to make some today.  I made a few filters to modify the bokeh.  Here are my heart shaped examples.  shot at 50mm. f1.4. I will look for the article I found online that gave me the project idea.  Be [...]