Hell froze over a long time ago. Here in Canada, we prefer to to call it Manitoba.

try this:




click the img button, add the url (without the html code) and click the Img button again

Do the 400 flashes offer contrast control flash?
I'm sure that two 500 ftz's or a 500ftz and a 300 ftz will give ttl main and fill on an istd or ds2 with that kind of set up....just curious...

just playing around, but maybe with some more experiments this could work.
28-70 f4 with cokin filter adapter.
50mm 1.4 with cokin filter adapter.
reverse mount the 50mm to the camera mounted 28-70 with a piece of electric tape (on the filter rings not the lenses themselves.)
http://homepage.mac.com/lightexpressions/macro/macro.html

I'm not convinced that "cromatic abberation" is a digital sensor issue.
Usually with digital you get a purple bluish cast....
I'm thinking that the lighting angle and red abberations are attribitable to late afternoon sunlight (already warm) being colored more by the reflective gold, creating a red cast to normal lens flare.

pentax 50 mm 1.7 m
here's an example of what you can get:
1/125s f22, af1.7 tc, ringflash, ist ds2


and the center:

Always go circular.
linear won't be compatible if you wind up slapping it on an af camera.
linear is less expensive therefore built to buget minded photogs with glass and coating quality to match the budget price.
Bear in mind that before circular became the standard, btw, and tiffin and others had some great linear poarizers out there that might be found used for a song...not bad if you only use older mf cameras or stack infront of a circular pol, to use as a vari strength neutral density filter.

Thank you Mattmattic. The great ting was doing the initial layou while my significant other, gave the customer a coffee. I know the wings need repositioning and reshaping(alittle perspective control) and feather textures applied, but have 10 layers to work with. Sat with customer and by moving elements around clicking layers on and off, I was able to get the customer interacting in the composition design. It's what they like. I still got a few hairs to remove, and other work, but rare is the customer that gives me cart blanch with the model release, and i'm using it for a before middle and end video in my site, to show potential customers how we work.

Hi guys. I saw a thread or two mentioning the Gimp, and I know a lot of us guys use ps cs2 and I also saw some posts(made more than my fair share) on improvising.
For those that care to check it out, here's a shot I did in studio last night.
In the oft overlooked ps elements, I laid out a proof of concept for my customer..twenty minutes after the shoot.
Of course I'll re-open the file and finish it in photoshop before taking to lab for 16x20's but for many folks, I thought the proof of concept would impress with elements capabilities. Well worth the money for those that can't afford its' big brother.
http://homepage.mac.com/lightexpressions/Angel/Angel.html

Scenery?
Get the gimp photo editor. or use whatever you got, and while your shopping for a lens, you can try stitching together panoramas for free.
Hard to get good ultrawides cheap these days. seems digital sensors have created a demand which has created a sellers market.