I've been 'feelin it' lately, fever, the shots on this sight, the lens, everything has has got me 'goin'.   I'm lovin it, sharing images w/everybody on this site, folks who shoot like you do, w/the same kinda lenses you like.

 I called this shot 'MicroVase', cuz I didn't know what else to call it.  It IS definitely the world's most 'itty bitty' flower vase, if that's in fact what it is.  I worked on indirect lighting and brushed aluminum @F6 to see if I could come up w/something w/this kind of lighting w/o a glow.  

The texture and tone is from the lens and the Polaroid.

Take care

I usually don't post my also-rans but figured I'm amongst friends here.  Having a hard time getting clear of the gate with a new 2 me 5X12 camera.  These are close enough that you can at least see where I'm trying to go.  This series is about dreams.  The image is there but it's in the mist of dreams.  If you ever played with one of these as a 4 and 5 year old you might ask yourself later in the day, did I see that image or was it a dream I'm trying to remember.

Hi Folks

I was in a discount store w/my boy when I saw this thing, and when I got to the checkstand, the lady ringing me up picks up this thing, starts tossing it up and down and asks me what it is.  I say truthfully 'hell if I know', and another lady next to me gets into the conversation with, 'hey, it's the mystery ball', and we all have a chuckle and I tell her that's what I'll call it.  So even though the working title of the pic is 'Metal Sphere', it's really the 'Mystery Ball' after the shot.

 This is an object that I thought would allow me to shoot the Series III wideopen @ F4.5 and so I've included 2 versions @F4.5 and F6.  Opening all the way up to F4.5 to shoot anything in extremely bright light would've spread the glow throughout the frame, blowing out everything, as opposed to what you see here in pretty subdued light. 

The sphere is sitting on brushed alluminum.  Pick 'em.

Have a good one.

 Hallo!

Here is my first image with my new Pinkham & Smith Visual Quality IV No. 3. I received the lens yesterday and could not resist to try it. It is very exciting looking trough the groundglass and their are so many ways to focus this anstonishing lens.

All the best from Berlin

stefan d 

Hi Folks

 I'd picked up one of the most interestingly shaped glass curios I've seen, and of course I had to shoot it.  This is the shot, and I named the it 'T', for triangle.   The glass was reflecting some fairly intense highlights(for this lens), so I closed down the lens to bet. F6-F8.  The makers of this lens were I believe possibly trying to tell us something by the way the F-stops are engraved on the lens,  it's  engraved F4.5.........F5...........F6.........Then F8.  

So far in my very limited experience w/the the Ser. III, F6 has in fact, seemed a 'sweet spot' for me,  so maybe the other marks are 'benchmarks' as far as what starts and what trails off at these stops.   I'm sure I'm going to find out.

I shot this w/a very old Polaroid, and it still turned out despite being from a box that's about 6 yrs old. 

I angled this thing at a fairly sharp angle toward the lens and the Ser. III reacted by rendering the front of it w/a still fairly crisp image over a soft one, and then merging the back end into PURE SMOKE. 

I loaded up this image in my office w/the lights out last night, it looks too dark now when compared to the original Polaroid this morning so I've taken the time to match the jpeg to exactly what the Polaroid looks like and reloaded.  Nothing else has been done to the shot.