Hello
I saw some pictures on Flickr where the its cropped to just the eyes of a woman. Also seems like, the photo is taken very close to the subject. So I used a 70-200mm lens. But if I tried to get too close to the subject, the lens doesn't focus.
So my question is - in a situation like this when you are taking photo of the subject closely, what lens do you use?
You could use a macro lens (like the Canon 100mm macro, for example) or you could try using your 70-200 with extension tubes. The tubes will reduce your minimum focus distance for the lens.
ISeek wrote:
...I saw some pictures on Flickr where the its cropped to just the eyes of a woman. Also seems like, the photo is taken very close to the subject. So I used a 70-200mm lens. But if I tried to get too close to the subject, the lens doesn't focus.
One option is to set the camera-to-subject distance at the lens' minimum focusing distance (or back a little further as a fudge factor), and then crop the resulting image to just the eyes.
If you do want to frame the eyes tightly in camera, then as mentioned above a macro lens or extension tubes would be the way to go.
The MFD can be found in the published specs for the lens, or you can just experiment to find the MFD for yours.
I have the EOS 70-200 f/4L IS USM, and its MFD is listed as 3.94 feet or 1.2 metres. The EOS 70-200 f/2.8L IS USM is listed as being 4.3 feet or 1.3 metres -- different from mine -- so you can't just go by the focal length.
