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Many vintage lenses have a nicely textured focus ring for a good grip, look, and feel, and so does the focus ring of my vintage Olympus Zuiko lens. Its focus ring is embossed with hundreds (I didn't count them) of tiny "diamonds", and I was curious to see how they looked when getting extra close with the Laowa Ultra Macro lens.
At first, I went for colour (of course...), put the red transparent plastic lid in front of one LED lamp and the green bottle in front of the other (I also tried blue instead of green and all three colours together) but, surprise, it was too much even for me. So I tried a different approach: I used the natural light photo lamp from above as my main light source and pointed one of the LEDs against the gold-coated cardboard cake board "reflector" (which I held above the focus ring) for a single, warm colour accent.
This indeed yielded the nicest-looking results. I also went for a shallow DOF with lots of rhombic bokeh (a single shot), which helped transform the expected macro dust into tiny bokeh balls. I still removed some dust in Photoshop, especially on the in-focus diamonds. Maybe a soft brush would have helped remove more of the dust than the microfibre cloth did but I hope it's still pleasant to look at ;)
HMM, Everyone!
Focus: Looking over the focus ring towards the viewfinder on one of my gorgeous little Kodak Retinettes. This one is a Retinette 1B, it looks like new and I have just run an Ilford HP4 through it and looking forward to the results, as it functioned like the day it was new (its as old as me). I have become addicted to these lovely looking little cameras and I have a collection of various models that is growing too quickly.
My latest work.
The matteblue Focus RS.
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Shot this matte Ford Focus RS a few weeks ago.
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The third picture of the recent Ford Focus RS MK2 series.
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Spent the day with my friend Jennifer Kehl yesterday, and we ended up sitting around most of the day, drinking coffee and talking. Snapped this to test out how close I could get while using my AF Micro-Nikkor 200mm f/4D handheld, loved how it turned out. She was focusing on cigarette smoke with her Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5.
Taken with:
Nikon D80
AF Micro-Nikkor 200mm f/4D
Second picture of the Ford Focus RS series.
The car is matte blue painted.
My latest work.
The matteblue Focus RS.
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The 305bhp Ford Focus RS mark 2.
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Rig shot of a Focus RS from my latest customers shoot :) Not as good as the first one in my eyes, but this was taken after the best light had gone :(
I have made a quick editing run through of a rig shot if anyone is interested in seeing it :)
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One single long exposure. No photoedition : straight out of the camera except for contrast/crop.
Models : Ohdrey Pom's
Light : Nico nard & me
A excellent light painting session in "Le Zoom", the headquarter of the light team "Urban light crew" with
Ohdrey Pom's, Nico Nard, Yoann Lecourt, Emilie Da Rocha, Jean Christophe Aubert, MASS Lighter & Graigue Padawan !
De rappe Focus RS van de tweede generatie (305 pk) was maar in drie kleuren leverbaar. Frozen White, Performance Blue en de meest voorkomende kleur: Ultimate Green, die destijds wel een meerprijs had van € 1200,-.
Zaandam, Nederland
The fast Focus RS of the second generation (305 hp) was only available in three colors. Frozen White, Performance Blue and the most common color: Ultimate Green, which at the time had an extra price of € 1200,-.
Zaandam, The Netherlands
Another first for me outside of a show! The new Focus RS! Looks so good in this Blue, but I defo prefer my little RS ;)