Martini Bar
by fotomann_forever

Comment:

Originally posted by Bear_Music: The Jim Bean placard behind her drink is killing this for me, and so is the white sign on the wall. For this kind of shot, you gotta be in control of the details...

It's comments like these I appreciate.

FWIW, the white sign in the background was edited out of the image I submitted months ago to the bar owner, but the Jim Beam bar napkin holder was not.

Dynamic Balance
by fotomann_forever

Comment:
Not a bad finish.

Rebecca @ f-1.2
by Paul

Comment:
Really hard to get that kind of shallow DoF with strobes, that's for sure.

Wine
by LVicari

Comment:
Very, very nice image!

Sentinel
by david_c

Comment:
A wonderful image David. Congrats on the Blue!

Flash
by fotomann_forever

Comment:

Originally posted by Bear_Music: That's a stupid finish. I thought this was great, with the double-take and all. Gave it a 9. I'm sure it's the highest score you ever got from me :-)

Well thank you, Robert. I thought it might do a bit better than it did, but hey, it is what it is.

Luci & Joe
by Kelli

Comment:
Nice couple's shot, feels very natural.

On a technical note, need to get a little bit of fill onto the man's face.

IMG_9749
by Kelli

Comment:
MC is a mount for old Minolta 35mm cameras, starting with the Minolta SR-T 101, along with MD mount. I have a small collection of Minolta MC and MD mount prime lenses ranging from 35mm to 200mm.

For what it's worth, the lens was produced before 1977.

There are adapter for both Nikon and Canon cameras, but both have to have a corrective optic in them to allow the lens to infinity focus. The adapter gives the lens another 1.6x crop factor, but loses a stop of light. It can be used without the corrective optic as an extension tube for macro photography work.

With that lens on a Canon or Nikon APS-C camera with the adapter, you have the 35mm equivalent of 512mm focal length. I've got a 2x teleconverter too for a whopping 1024mm :)

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minolta_SR_mount

Anna
by fotomann_forever

Comment:
Gosh my post work was bad on this....wow

focus
by Shadowi6

Comment:
Beautiful bodyscape!