I’ve been a little annoyed with Facebook lately for insisting on telling me what activities my friends were interested in attending. However, this weekend was the Barnstormers Vintage Fair at the Expo and I would not even have known about it if my Facebook friends had not expressed interest. So score one point for Facebook’s invasion of my friends privacy.
I decided to take the little walk around camera with the Sweet 50 Lensbaby attached. Sweet 50 is arguably my favorite Lensbaby. It gives sweet spot of very sharp focus and then fades off into blur. But just to make things interesting you can swivel the lens to determine where the focus will be so it doesn’t have to be right in the center.
I cannot ever walk by an old typewriter without taking its picture. So I have images of at least 5 or 6 typewriters along with many other interesting things from the fair. The Sweet 50 gave them all an interesting twist. I also scored some fun props for still life photography so stay tuned for those to show up somewhere along the line. I had to limit myself to what I could carry back to the car in one trip. Otherwise, I might have gone bankrupt! (I know I’ll be kicking myself for not grabbing one of those vintage windows when I had the chance! But they were heavy and it was a long way back to the car.)
Anyway, this typewriter (which by the way was sold right after I photographed it so I’m glad I pulled the camera out of the bag when I did) took a trip through Topaz Studio 2 to enhance the vintage look. Then I used Nik Color Efex Pro to add a grungy border.