Katie, portrait #1 is awesome. You should try to get critical focus on the eyes, either by stopping down or by rotating subject's head. My manual-focus portraits are even more vexing: 5-year old daughter won't stop moving around. Am about to adopt f/11 instead of my preferred f/5.6.
rico wrote:
Katie, portrait #1 is awesome. You should try to get critical focus on the eyes, either by stopping down or by rotating subject's head. My manual-focus portraits are even more vexing: 5-year old daughter won't stop moving around. Am about to adopt f/11 instead of my preferred f/5.6.
i actually usually prefer one eye oof to both eyes in the same plane or whole head in focus. i always prefer the front eye be in focus though. obviously it's a matter of taste and what you/your subject are looking for. i'm sure people looking for classic headshots want their whole head in focus.
Mike, you spend a lot of time at the beach . The antique store one is different (in a good way) and the juxtaposition on the third black and white is very well done.
Katie, I love the portraits! Especially the second. The lighting, pose and dof are superb (and shots like those remind me why I shoot film, the grain in her hair is awesome). Well done.
And in genera the thread seems to be hopping. Nice.
Igeek, the movie film looks quite interesting. How are you enjoying it?
sebboh wrote:
i actually usually prefer one eye oof to both eyes in the same plane or whole head in focus. i always prefer the front eye be in focus though. obviously it's a matter of taste and what you/your subject are looking for. i'm sure people looking for classic headshots want their whole head in focus.
Be it by DOF, posing, or Scheimpflug, I like both eyes in focus. Back of the head can fall off, hence my preference for f/5.6 head shots. I would relax one (or even both eyes) if the gaze is well away from the lens.
this is all second hand information, so take it for what it's worth
the 105 and the 55 are excellent lenses. The 55 technically and the 105 in an overall sense; I REALLY like pictures taken with it that I've seen. The 90 is a leaf shutter lens if you need to use a higher flash sync speed, and Im sure the macro is a lovely lens.
the reason I don't really consider buying a 67 seriously is it's a HUGE camera.
I'm not that interested in the 90 (too close to the 105) or the 135 (meh). I'd love the 45, 75 (if I can find this lens I'd buy a camera to go with it), 105 and 165.
I'm going to pass. It's a lot of money for something that, besides for the wide angle (which I can always get for my RZ) doesn't add too much to what I already have. (though that 75...).
I agree on the focus thing. It's taking some practice with the canon and shallow DOF manual focusing on the rokkors - especially in kids in a not so bright room! I like both eyes in focus, too.
zalmyb wrote:
iGeek, where do you get yours and how do you develop them?
Self dev with the Tetenal C41 Kit. I get cans off ebay. There was some 500T for CHEAP (7 cents a foot, ~6 feet per roll), so I HAD to get some. They also had <10 cent per foot 200T, so I have about 1,400 feet left of that. I'm thinking about buying some more, but I currently have 4,700 feet of film...
Am about to adopt f/11 instead of my preferred f/5.6.
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