I thought it was time for just a bit of change of pace, and so I've uploaded I 'street scene' type image I shot during Carnaval the last time I was in Bahia(northern Brazil).  This was shot w/my Contax at night, under natural lighting, exp. @F2.8 w/Fuji NPZ.  I don't shoot a much 35mm anymore let alone street scenes on account of my reflexes are going and now when my eye tells my brain to fire the shutter, it happens many times too late.

But there's something to be said for catching simplicity/the spontaneous/whatever's there, it's always refreshing and a good change of pace from being esoteric.  Anyway..............this is called for obvious reasons, 'HisBabyGirl'.

This is my last still life to date w/the Semi-Achromatic.  It's a long tall slender glass flower vase lying on its side on brushed aluminum.  I didn't set out for it to look like this but after setting up the shot, I looked through the groundglass and this is what I saw.  This was shot w/the SA wideopen @4.5. 

I called this shot 'Chemical Focus' because I focus on the rim of the glass closest to the camera, but more was in focus that what I saw on the groundglass. 

I gotta comment on what Steve Nichols said on one of the forums, I like what you said, and will say it here.  You inspired me to go out and get a Raptor w/your Raptor shot of the foundry.   I think these lenses do have a distinctive quality that can be exploited and expressed and they do have a definable 'personality'  when everything works right but it doesn't work out that way with  every single shot.  I think that's what some folks are missing, you can't just slap on the lens and have the lens put its personality stamp on whatever you're shooting just because you used that lens, you gotta make it work.

Same w/the Semi-Achromatic, I've shot quite a bit, including tests, you'd be surprised how much I've shot, but the shots I'm happy with from this lens you can count with the fingers on one hand.

Take care

This is a monochrome version of my first portrait w/the Semi-Achromatic.  It's entitled 'Tenebrism' for the painting term which suggests 'emerging from the darkness'.  I have my daughter Danielle looking up, and the lightsource coming down at an angle which seemed to give me the greatest amount of modeling and contour to her features.

I've found that my Profoto strobe 250 watt modeling lights in their light modifiers are perfect for the Semi-Achromatic for portraiture(so far) as the actual strobes are useless and their light so intense that  they simply blow everything out beyond recognition using this lens @F6.  This combination resulted in a shot w/out the signature glow that these lenses sometime exhibit.  As I've said before, these type lenses are different lenses depending on the light.

Take care

This is a portrait I shot recently of a friend of mine who I recently introduced to LF photography. Ervin is a sculptor and kind enough to sit for me. This was taken with the front element only of a brass portrait lens wide open. Well no waterhouse stop fitted. Shot on 5x4.

I find myself purposefully looking for 5X12 aspect ratio scenes.  This is done with an ancient Darlot landscape meniscus.  Long before anyone ever thought of making a soft focus lens on purpose, the landscape meniscii would have a lovely glow unless you stopped them well down.  They were never intended to be used wide open as I have here.  12" f6

We don't have any forests to be enchanted so we have to do the best we can with the occasional survivor.