Tv_land_man

As a professional, I can tell you that lensbaby may be a cool little thing to toss in to a shoot, it is far from a professional lens option. It's gimmicky and you may find a place for it on occasion, I'm not knocking it per se, but its a little weird for it to be tossed into this AMA. I'll be honest, I've never met a working photographer that has one or if they did, they had one in 2006 and sold it after a few weeks. Again, to each their own. I'm actually surprised they are still around. I remember them in the back of Popular Photography when I was like 15 (2005). These kind of items are a phase a lot of photographers go through, like prisms or cracked lens elements. Cool for refracting some sunlight or a heavy backlight but don't pull it out in front of a creative director for work with an advertising agency.

All that said, I did enjoy this photographer's work. Instagrammy but competent.

Yeah tilt shifts are actually pretty amazing for in studio work. There are a lot of uses for them outside of the small world gimmick you see. They can give you a focal plane that you can't achieve with a standard lens. But they are pretty specialized.