#Freelensing
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #Freelensing from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #freelensing
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-24 04:23 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-24 04:23 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-24 04:23 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 31 public posts (spanning ~32675 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 16:00
Languages: English (19) · Dutch (8) · French (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 3.6
Top of the latest posts
OK, so, freelensing is pretty much what it sounds like - it involves detaching the lens and holding it in front of the camera, making subtle adjustments to the angle and position until you get a pleasing result. It tends to give soft dreamy
Something completely different, inspired by @moragperkins : a couple of #redscale images with #freelensing. The film is reversed Kodacolor 200; for the 1st image the camera was my #PentaxME (not really suitable, as it turned out) and lens a
Quick PSA on the #Freelensing thing since it’s come up a couple of times today: Be aware that if you try this with a digital camera there is a risk of getting dust on your sensor and causing damage, so be careful and don’t try it with a cam
What “freelensing” means
WikipediaFreelensing is a photography technique used with interchangeable lens cameras in both film-based and digital photography. The lens is detached from the camera and held in front of the lens mount by hand during exposure. This allows the lens to be tilted or shifted creating a similar effect to a perspective control or "Tilt-Shift" lens, only with a lower degree of fidelity. The result is a combination of selective focus and light leakage which are used creatively to create surreal imagery. Becaus
“Freelensing” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#freelensing across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #freelensing straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/freelensing