Solana Sunset

orange at it's best.

I am amazed with golden and copper colors plus amazing contrast and details. Technically perfect.Minolta lens is really get my attention , there was a minolta product sold under Leica name , may be this lens is.

Umut, thank you for the kind words. I know that you have a very high standard of technical excellence for image quality. That makes me value even more the praise you give this exposure. I hate to burst your bubble, but it is a Vivitar lens that I bought for $25 from a former coworker. She used to enter international competitions until somebody stole one of her digitized slides and started winning competitions with it. Her father was a long-time pro in Denver who graduated with a Fine Arts degree from the University of Chicago Art College. She is a wizard with Photoshop. I would add that, in the highest res scan that my scanner (Epson 4490) will do, the white spots are clearly small seashells. You can even see the washout and buildup of sand around them. There is much more detail available in the negative than my scanner will resolve. It's amazing how much better this looks on my wife's Imac than it does on my PC.

Wow , Vivitar , I would not expect anything from that lens but it is amazing. I am using a cheap pc and Hyundai monitor and it is amazing. Its natural an professional knows what to select than me.I am waiting an Vivitar lens from England for my Cosina K Mount , it is free from a generous sprit and I googled it and amazed with the results. There is a saying that I am not rich to use cheap gear and I am trying to use a small Leica. Its not perfect and not as good as such a lens. Velvia is another story , I first used it with my Kiev 88 , 80 mm Planar copy and I took some garden pictures with it. Reversely , they come with best natural light spreading plus most lovely cool greens. But photograph magazines publish horrible things , fire reds , purple skies , %100 magenta blossom.In my belief , popular photography magazine is 180 degree different than 50 years ago , that time I was burning to take similar pictures , now and 20 years ago, I was using the magazine not what to do than what to do. I think they killed the photography and educated a HDR loving generation.For right copper tone , I am getting same color from fuji 100 asa cheap negative color film. Its a signature of Fuji Film. With velvia , it turns in to metallic color .In my belief , Fuji colors are closer to organic colorants colors like silk dyes or tree gums they use to lacquer the wooden tea ceremony bowls and sea creatures colors.Kodak is closer to inorganic colorants like minerals. But Fuji Velvia was famous about the fist product closer to Kodachrome.Color processing is going worse and worse and scanners are out of tune and machines fails every week. As I told before I am living in a 400 meters diameters zone and I took everything could be taken. Now I am waiting a FED 1 from France and I will go back to texture , line , light shadow , rust , dirt class photography in BW. I am using Barnack Leicas for past 20 years and they are just me. Hope to publish new class and level of photography.Your image is great.

Stunning.

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