06-13-2011, 04:42 PM
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For a snapshot of a friend in conversation, it is not bad at all <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Try f2.8 instead of f5.6, it might surprise you what that will do for the portrait...
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I guess, but I am always scared of a too shallow DOF, but the boukeh would be nicer for sure, although 4 or 5.6 are really optimal on that lens for sharpness. At 11 it is already past the best performance, very much like the figures at 2.8. This is probably nitpicking though, because I think Bryan mentioned the most important point, about the hand digging too deeply into the pretty face.
For a snapshot of a friend in conversation, it is not bad at all <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />.Try f2.8 instead of f5.6, it might surprise you what that will do for the portrait...
[/quote]
I guess, but I am always scared of a too shallow DOF, but the boukeh would be nicer for sure, although 4 or 5.6 are really optimal on that lens for sharpness. At 11 it is already past the best performance, very much like the figures at 2.8. This is probably nitpicking though, because I think Bryan mentioned the most important point, about the hand digging too deeply into the pretty face.