OK I'm done..........for a while, with this Turner Reich.  This is the last shot of 4 which I'll be putting on my personal website.   I'll be giving this lens and myself a rest.  I wonder if anybody else out there is like me, I get excited about a lens, work up a sweat doing shots over several days, even weeks, and then if I get close to what I want, I pause, and then realize that I'm mentally exhausted.  I just got through spending 4 hours doing this shot/trying to get it right, and I have a headache.

I love playing around w/this magnifier and bulb, and felt I hadn't done them justice yet, and decided to try a very oblique angle in shooting them and with the bulb on top for a change.  I've always been intrigued how light bounces off and through glass, and this magnifier has always represented a lens element to me, and the use of the Turner Reich just does it for me in conveying the elegance and mystery of glass.

This lens has style/panache.

     I changed the title, because the previous title was 'yucckkky' and stupid, so go ahead and 'wop' me, but the image deserved a better name.  I'm still dancing w/this lens, she won't let me go, so let the dance continue.  This is an 'itty bitty' glass curio, sitting on brushed aluminum, and I've leaned a 59 cent magnifier against it. 

      The shot speaks for itself, the bottle's on my favorite surface, brushed aluminum, which can be used both as a background and a rough mirror reflection of the subject matter.

      This lens is all about understated elegance.

       Take care

    Maybe my scanner didn't feel like putting out yesterday, because this image is a better scan.  Oh well, my scanner's almost as old as I am, and can't be expected to put out a max effort every day.  

    This is the Jim Galli modified Turner Reich on my Toyo AII, to get close enough I had to put on the 4 inch extension sleeve to give me the max 16 inches which I needed most of to get this.  Exposure was wide open(F6.8), shutter was 'one thousand and one'.

    Let me preface what I have to say by saying that the j-peg image you see here doesn't do justice to the actual print of this image which is much, much sharper, and has a greater sense of fidelity, but I've uploaded it anyway to give a flavor of this lenses pallette. 

    Jim Galli modified this lens, and I'm very pleased w/the resulting look, the lens has a tendency to make the highlights 'pop', and then transition abruptly/very quickly to deep, dark, 'velvet' like shadows.   The look is dramatic, and I get a sense of immediacy from the print of this image.  The lens doesn't have the greyish 'murky' kind of pallette of some soft focus/portrait  lenses, and the lens has some of the same nuances and values as the Cooke PS945 when the Cooke lens is stopped down somewhat.