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A Lens Baby is an unconventional lens, created by Craig Strong. The Lens Baby’s do not focus like traditional lenses, they have whats called a “Sweet Spot” which allows you to tilt the lens and focus on what you want, and everything outside of the “Sweet Spot” will be gradually blurred. If I was asked to describe the effect Lens Baby’s create I couldn’t, but this article from PopPhoto may help.

Is It Hard to Use?

Though it may take some people a matter of minutes to master this lens, it may take awhile for others. I myself don’t even think i have come close to being an expert with this lens, there are just too many possibilities to claim that.

Is It Versatile?

Ya probably the most versatile lens I own! Currently I have the macro kit for mine, there are also several others such as wide angle and step up shade. Click here for full list of accessories. Not only are there accessories but a whole optic swap system, allowing you to swap between a plastic, glass, double glass, and more! Click here for the full list of optics.

Examples

Here are some shots I have taken with my Lens Baby Muse so far. Note that I have the 2x Glass optic in mine and some photographs have the macro conversions on. Click images to see larger versions.

Taken with Lens Baby Muse, with macro conversion kit using both the +4 and +10.

Using the +4 macro I believe.

I may have used the +4 macro conversion on this but im not sure.

Taken with the Lens Baby Muse.

Conclusion (final thoughts)

If you are passionate about photography and want a to get some really unique shots, then get a Lens Baby. Not only do the base lens’s allow for a unique style of photography and with the accessories available your creativity is nearly unlimited.

Lens Baby Muse Review
Quality
The quality of the parts are strong and sturdy.
Is it worth it?
While some people may say this is more for fun and not worth it, I have made it part of my arsenal.
Accessories
With a ton of accessories available you can shoot some really cool stuff.

Overall
Overall the Lens Baby Muse is great and should be in your camera bag!.

Sorry about the lame star system, if you have any ideas for a rating system leave a comment below.

The List

The list is not in order of best to worst, just in the order that I put them to.

Video Copilot

Video Copilot is a very popular After Effects tutorial site if not the most popular.

Motion Works

Motionworks is an amazing site, the tutorials on this site are top notch.

Max After

MaxAfter features some sweet tutorials for After Effects and 3Ds Max.

Maltaannon

Maltaannon.com has some excellent tutorials for After Effects as well as some free plug ins!

LFP Industries

This site features many tutorials on how to create effects seen in the hit TV show Heroes.

Layers Magazine

Layers Magazine has tutorials for every Adobe program and some descent After Effects tutorials.

Gray Machine

Gray Machine has some awsometacular tutorials defiantly worth a look.

GoMediaZine

A plentiful amount of tutorials and freebies.

Creative Cow

A legend itself creative cow is a pioneer of the tutorial sites maybe not the first but sure is up there.

Ae Tuts+

Ae Tuts+ is a fantastic member of the tuts+ family check it out its updated several times a week.

Thats a Wrap

This concludes the Top Ten AE Tutorial Sites of 09′ be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed.

The List

The list is not in order of best to worst, just in the order that I put them to.

Greyscale Gorilla

Okay this site is one of my all time favorites, its run by Nick Campbell who has done some pretty famous work in the Motion Design Industry. Read more about him on his about page.

C4D Cafe

This is an excellent website, featuring contests, forums, and everyone there is good people.

C4D Training

This is a great site for video tutorials and learning some of Cinema 4D’s Capabilities.

CG Tuts+

This site not only contains amazing Cinema 4D tutorials but many other 3D program tutorials.

Creative Cow

Creative Cow I don’t think their is a tutorial website with more history then this.

Kreative Domain

This website focuses heavily on Cinema 4D and Realflow.

Leah Raeder

Covers some nice topics such as setting up a default start up scene.

Motion Works

These tutorials are AMAZING they are extremely helpful for making title sequences and advertisements.

Pariah Studios

This site is excellent for learning how to use the hair module in Cinema 4D and teaching some of C4D’s Tags.

Sketchy Pictures

This site is great for learning cool text effects in C4D.

Well something I decided to make of coarse. Anyways there will be a guaranteed amount of 3 Hazy Studio Top Ten Sites, you are still probably wondering what they are.

What They Are?

Okay they are simply the best 10 tutorial/training/tip sites for a given subject.

What Three Are You Guaranteed?

Okay okay here is the list in order of their release.

1. Cinema 4D Top Ten Sites of 09′
2. Photography Top Ten Sites of 09′
3. Photoshop Top Ten Sites of 09′

What Others May You See?

1. After Effects
2. Illustrator
3. And any others requested in the comments…. That is if any one would comment.. Get a lot of views no comments…

When You Will Get To See Them?

As soon as tomorrow! Well the Cinema 4D one is finished and will be published sometime tomorrow. The other two will be released sometime this year… Get it there is only about 22 days.