Another image from the Konica Hexanon AR 50 f1.7. Again I like the finished image. The wife will probably kill me when she sees this, but hey, you only live once. This was also developed in Lightroom and finished off in Photoshop. I just can't get used to using Lightroom for everything. My Lightroom books have arrived and I'm trying to find time to start reading them. Sometimes I wish the day had 48hrs and I didn't need to sleep. I'll just have to find the time I suppose.

Here's another from the Hexanon. Quite sharp I'd say. It amazes me how these old lenses hold up to their new counterparts. They also produce a different redering to the image. I like it and it really brings out the image. I think it must have something to do with the coatings used today, or looking at it another way, a lack of these coatings on the older lenses. Whatever they use presumably reduces flare etc but I prefer the older lenses. True, they are manual focus lenses and my quota of keepers has been reduced since I've been using them but...the keepers I get really seem to shine. Difficult to tell on a small image like these on the photoblog but the originals are really nice.

I'm quite pleased with how this one turned out. Another thing I learned on this little outing, the longer the exposure the more vivid the colours. They really do seem to pop.

Not all of the exposures were duds at first though. This is one I thought turned out ok. As I look through the images what soon became apparent is the attention required to composition. I see possibilities of how I could have taken these differently, or composed the shot from another angle, or, what I would have left out of the image. I think the adage of "less is more" really is true.