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I am now the very happy owner of a AI 135mm f/2.8 thanks to MATT. I received the lens this morning and managed to get out and take a few pics with it today (on the D60 - so no metering). Here is one that I really liked and wanted to share with everyone...Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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Very nice.

I think it would help if you have enough tonal room in the image to hold back the brightness of the fingers a bit. Where they are is good but the eye tends to go the the brightest place so I think they compete a bit tonally with the face and eye.

Regards,
Murray

Pics not showing......... Glad you put it to some use..

MATT

I quite like as it is.

If you were to try something, one could do BW and as murray said, try to emphasise the eyes more ...

Murray Foote wrote:the eye tends to go the the brightest place.

i've never heard it put so simply. something just clicked in my thick head. thank you.

nice shot nevertheless cam. i like the wispy hair. i have a feeling you're gonna really like that lens.

Thanks for all the comments (wish there were more!).

Murray Foote wrote:I think it would help if you have enough tonal room in the image to hold back the brightness of the fingers a bit. Where they are is good but the eye tends to go the the brightest place so I think they compete a bit tonally with the face and eye.

Now that you mention the brightness in the fingers I have had a play and hope that this will help.

MATT wrote:Pics not showing......... Glad you put it to some use..

try switching your DNS settings to OpenDNS...not sure why, but my TPG connection has trouble with my own website a lot and I find using OpenDNS fixes things. I am loving this lens!

surenj wrote:If you were to try something, one could do BW and as murray said, try to emphasise the eyes more

Well there is a B&W coming up...hold on!!! Not sure as to how to emphasis the eyes more though. Thanks Surenj

Rooz wrote:nice shot nevertheless cam. i like the wispy hair. i have a feeling you're gonna really like that lens.

Thanks Chris!! I think my 50mm f/1.8 is going to have a bit of competition!

Here is a rework...B&W (desaturation then brightness/contrast in Capture NX2) with the fingers pulled back a bit (Capture NX2).

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Let me know what you all think!

I like it. Very nice.

Regards,
Murray

Nice work Cameron

I like the first image. My eyes were drawn to the in-focus area of the image rather than the brightest part. Maybe that's more a reflection of me I think you have nailed this image perfectly.

Looks like you have got a nice new creative tool there and you know how to use it.

Actually, it occurs to me that for the b&w one, but not for the colour one, it might help to crop in just a tiny bit from the top. The difference is because the forehead is less tonally prominent in the b&w.