Time Immortal

Time for another Lensbaby picture.

At work a while back, we had a Guitar Hero/Rock Band party — the social committee rented an Xbox 360 and the games in question, and a bunch of folks hung out on a Friday evening after work playing fake instruments for a few hours. I’m no good at such games for the most part (I do okay on vocals), so I contented myself with taking pictures of the event.

This was one picture I was particularly pleased with when I found it on the flash card after all was said and done.

I love the exuberance on the kid’s face, the arrested action (he had just finished a drum solo, if memory serves), and (of course) the flaring that the Lensbaby causes on the left side of the frame. This is also one case where the camera’s tendency to overexpose Lensbaby shots worked in my favour, giving the background some interesting highlights (star-shaped, of course, thanks to the aperture plate I was using).

Of course, it was a high ISO shot and so required lots of noise reduction, but overall I’m really happy with this picture. Ah, to be a kid again.