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PORTRAITS LOVE THE 20D !
Got to test out my new portrait lens (the 85mm f/1.8) today with one
of my most willing subjects. http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/76509239/original |
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what exactly is a portrait lens - great photos!!
"Annika1980" wrote in message oups.com... Got to test out my new portrait lens (the 85mm f/1.8) today with one of my most willing subjects. http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/76509239/original |
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On Apr 1, 6:51 pm, "Hoover" wrote:
what exactly is a portrait lens - great photos!! It is a lens that will be used primarily for portraits due to it's shallow DOF and wonderful bokeh. Of course, the Canon 85 f/1.8 is so sharp that I plan to use it for stitched panoramas as well. |
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Hoover wrote:
what exactly is a portrait lens Assuming that was a question, a portrait lens is one favoured for portraits. For 35mm it would be about 85 to about 135mm, but even a 200 or 300 can do decent portraits. The 85mm (often a f/1.4) is considered a classic portrait lens as it gives a sense of volume without exagerating features and a shallow enough DOF to isolate features in depth (eg: eyes). Longer lenses are often used in location fashion shooting to both flatten out features and to throw backgrounds out-of-focus. For digital (cropped sensors) 50mm - 100mm is a good range. Cheers, Alan -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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On Apr 1, 6:21 pm, "Annika1980" wrote:
Got to test out my new portrait lens (the 85mm f/1.8) today with one of my most willing subjects. http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/76509239/original You bought yourself a super lens, Bret! Beautiful portrait of Mr. Divs. Lens delineation, saturation and contrast is superb. I insist you use this lens a lot! Helen |
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On Apr 1, 7:19 pm, wrote:
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/76509239/original You bought yourself a super lens, Bret! Beautiful portrait of Mr. Divs. Lens delineation, saturation and contrast is superb. I insist you use this lens a lot! Well, if you insist ..... |
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"Annika1980" wrote in message oups.com... Got to test out my new portrait lens (the 85mm f/1.8) today with one of my most willing subjects. http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/76509239/original classic example of a bad portrait (are snapshots of animals considered portraits?) trying to be passed off as a bokeh shot. always..ALWAYS have both eyes in sharp focus. that is just sloppy work, and indicative of many of your shots in that forum. we are so lucky to have you posting all these examples of your shoddy work here, even though anyone interested could just check your open page whenever they wanted. it's a good thing you didn't plunk down the extra coin for the 1.2 lens. as it is, you were wasting a good three hundred anyway. keep up the great work, salieri! someday you may be able to publish a kitty calendar.... |
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On Apr 1, 10:23 pm, "joe mama" wrote:
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/76509239/original classic example of a bad portrait (are snapshots of animals considered portraits?) trying to be passed off as a bokeh shot. always..ALWAYS have both eyes in sharp focus. that is just sloppy work, and indicative of many of your shots in that forum. Well crap, I guess I'll never sell that pic! Is this a hard and fast rule like the Rule of Thirds? The trouble with rules like that is that they limit what you can shoot. There is no way to get both the eyes in focus shooting @ f/1.8 unless I am equidistant from both eyes (the cat is looking right at me). But I shall remember that rule in the future. Thanks for the tip. |
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"Annika1980" wrote in message ups.com... On Apr 1, 10:23 pm, "joe mama" wrote: http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/76509239/original Is this a hard and fast rule like the Rule of Thirds? The trouble with rules like that is that they limit what you can shoot. standard cop out from bad shooters. of course rules are meant to be broken, but usually for effect, and good effect. hardly what i'd say was going on here. one slight twist to your right could have solved the problem. There is no way to get both the eyes in focus shooting @ f/1.8 unless I am equidistant from both eyes (the cat is looking right at me). the other poster already explained other alternatives. look, it's a snapshot, and a rather pedestrian one at that. if you really wanted to show the beauty of the lens, then shoot something that would have allowed for it. you can't post twenty things in here (incorrectly placed posts too) a day, and not expect any criticism. i sense you have a regular group of buddies that give you the proper ego massage, but that's not always going to be the case. did you actually post this in a relevant newsgroup as well? |
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