FD photos from September.....

<p>Shot #3</p>

<p>Oops...try again! Shot #3</p><div></div>

<p>I dream of having car like this!</p>

<p>All great photos. I have the equipment, just wish I had the talent.</p>

<p>Stuart, on which planet did you take the first photo. Can't be earth. </p>

<p>James,</p>

<p>They're called the "Glasshouse Mountains" and they're a ninety minute drive north of Brisbane (Australia). It was a very volcanic area millions of years ago.</p>

<p>Here's another shot taken last week from a different vantage point.</p><div></div>

<p><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h254/RedNumber5/201008Family73small.jpg" alt="" /><strong>AE-1P, 50mm f/1.8, Fuji Superia X-Tra ISO 800</strong></p>

<p>Wagon parked in a machine shed on the farm.</p><div></div>

<p>I love the image, Chris.</p>

<p>Sorry, not from last month. <a href="http://mostlyblackandwhite.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/wtf-its-a-new-f1/">F-1 New arrived today</a>.</p>

<p>Ooops! Bad click finger!</p><div></div>

<p>Autumn lighting</p><div></div>

<p>Here's a couple of B&W self portraits...Taken this month though, not in september. Both with the Canon FD 85mm f1.2 L @ f1.2 on a Sigma SD14:<br>

<a href="http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7980/sdim5894bwbc.jpg">http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7980/sdim5894bwbc.jpg</a><br /> <br /><a href="http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8000/sdim5895bwbc.jpg">http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8000/sdim5895bwbc.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://www.vermontel.net/~wsalati/CasualCollector/CanonLenses.htm"></a></p>

<p>Great portraits, Alf. I especially like the off-center one. Good control of tones as well. The lens helps, for sure.</p>

 

<p ><a name="00XTpS"></a><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=1503595">Christoph Hammann</a> <a href="../member-status-icons"></a>, Oct 14, 2010; 12:03 p.m.</p>

 

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Great portraits, Alf. I especially like the off-center one. Good control of tones as well. The lens helps, for sure.

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Thanks Chris. The FD 85mm f1.2 L is now my favorite lens. Its just a shame I cant use it at infinity.<br>

I posted these two pics on another forum and the feedback was that they need to be cropped tighter.<br>

I took that on board and here are three more with tighter crops, again with the FD 85mm f1.2 L @ f1.2:<br>

<a href="http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/6734/sdim5909bw2c.jpg">http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/6734/sdim5909bw2c.jpg</a><br>

<a href="http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/4808/sdim5917bw2c.jpg">http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/4808/sdim5917bw2c.jpg</a><br>

<a href="http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/39/sdim5936bw3c.jpg">http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/39/sdim5936bw3c.jpg</a></p>

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<p>Alf, I think you should trust your first instincts. I still like the first off-center one best. That one is really working with negative space. The others are nearer to underexposed, conventional portraits.</p>