Archive 2021 · Leica Q2 Wide Angle Portraits
p.1 #1Leica Q2 Wide Angle Portraits
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I have been using my Q2 lately for portraits, I am very happy with results. I’ve always shot portraits with an 85mm or larger lens, but I have a new favorite.
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Jul 19, 2021 at 08:43 AM
p.1 #2Leica Q2 Wide Angle Portraits
Wide angle can be great for environmental portraits. In this case the third image is the most successful in terms of telling a story but it's flawed by a serious back focus issue. Usually you want the eyes and face in focus. The first image looks strangely as if it has been uprezzed quite a bit. Maybe you have one that's not that way.
Jul 19, 2021 at 04:48 PM
p.1 #3Leica Q2 Wide Angle Portraits
First image was cropped substantially. Here is one cropped less.
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Jul 19, 2021 at 05:29 PM
p.1 #4Leica Q2 Wide Angle Portraits
Ah. Much better and a much better environmental portrait. Great tonality in the black and white too.
Jul 19, 2021 at 09:32 PM
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p.1 #5Leica Q2 Wide Angle Portraits
Yeah third is a throwaway; way too OOF.
NOthing wrong with using a wide angle for portraiture, just gotta be careful not to get too close and distort noses and such...
I too see these as environmental/editorial type shots, and 1 & 3 are solid, they almost make you want to hear the guy's story...
NOthing wrong with using a wide angle for portraiture, just gotta be careful not to get too close and distort noses and such...
I too see these as environmental/editorial type shots, and 1 & 3 are solid, they almost make you want to hear the guy's story...
Jul 20, 2021 at 12:11 PM
p.1 #7Leica Q2 Wide Angle Portraits
I am enjoying them all and WELCOME!!
You have a fine camera! The tonality looks very well done to me.
Cropping can become a very personal post processing effect.
Again very nice compositions!
Dan
You have a fine camera! The tonality looks very well done to me.
Cropping can become a very personal post processing effect.
Again very nice compositions!
Dan
Jul 21, 2021 at 08:37 AM
p.1 #8Leica Q2 Wide Angle Portraits
I use my zeiss 35 mm for environmental portraits. I want the context from the surroundings so usually don't go to it's max f/2. Digitally, I shoot a 46 mp camera so can step back to prevent enlarging the nose. A wide angle lens even wide open doesn't give excessive oof backgrounds. If I want that, I reack for an 85, 100, 135 or for crazy oof, 180 2.8. Wonderful rendering of skin tone/microcontrast by this I believe 10 element lens.
Jul 21, 2021 at 01:09 PM
p.1 #9Leica Q2 Wide Angle Portraits
I don't know. You get close enough for a fairly tight head/shoulders with a 35 1.4 wide open and that background gets pretty purdy pretty fast. It all depends on how close you are to the subject and how far away the background is.
Jul 30, 2021 at 08:15 PM
p.1 #10Leica Q2 Wide Angle Portraits
Lovely photos! As for distortion It depends on the lens, I think. Some have more visible distortion than others when used close up. I am used to shooting with a Minolta Rokkor MC 35/1.8 but when I recently got a Zeiss Distagon 35/1.4 I found I had to step quite a bit farther back to avoid distortion unless the subject was looking straight at me.
Jul 31, 2021 at 05:52 AM