Today’s image was captured at North Mountain Park in Ashland using the Lensbaby Sol45 on the M3. I had to use an adaptor as the lens is designed to mount on EOS cameras such as my 7D. The Sol 45 has much in common with the Sweet 50. It has a sweet spot of focus that fades off into blur. Where it differs is in that it is a fixed aperture lens at f3.5. It does not have the optic swap out system of the Composer Pro which the Sweet 50 uses but it does have the ability to swivel so that the point of focus can be changed. The other thing it has is some little plastic blades that can be moved in front of the lens to create a texture in the background. In this case it feels almost like the flower is growing out of a stained glass window.
In post processing I added some clarity, vibrance, and saturation and took it into Nik CEP for some sharpening and a border.