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Robert and I took these photos a while back. These photos are all created with long exposures and flashlights. We used all different types of flash lights and gells to change the colors. The length of the exposures ran from 3 to 5 minutes.

With the help of my model Joni, ok my sister but look at her she might as well have been one I took off for the lake a couple weeks ago to get some test shots with my new lens, the Canon 50mm F1.2L. After reading all the hoopla on the internet I wasn’t convinced that this lens was really right for me. There was a lot of discussion about back focusing and not being sharp wide open. Well I am here to say you do need to be careful when focusing at F1.2 but I experienced no back-focusing issues. In addition this lens was sharper at F1.2 than my 1.8 was at 1.8. Given the extreme price difference one would expect this but after reading through all the forums I wanted to make sure to give this lens a good testing before I was outside the period where I could return it. I am happy to report it lived up to my hopes and surpassed my expectations. I shot the lens as wide open as my camera would allow which in the shade was at 1.2 and in the sun it was between 1.2 and 2.2. Here are the results:

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Here are some more pictures from Boston…

A Fireboat at the Boston harbor:

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