Right on the money, Bruce. :-) G
On Oct 17, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Bruce Dayton wrote: > When shooting paid portaits, I rarely shooter faster than f4, usually > more towards f5.6. > > There are cases where faster is useful, but they are more the > exception than the rule. On trick is to not put them too close to the > background - that way they are all in focus and the background is not. > Or you can use a background that doesn't compete with the subject. > > I do agree that the eyes have to be sharp. If they are, then a little > softness in other areas can be forgiven or ignored by the viewer, but > if the eyes are soft, no matter what else you do, the picture is not > acceptable. That is one of the reasons I find manual focus so > important when shooting people/portraits/weddings. You have to get > the right focus and don't want to be fussing with focus > locking/recomposing or fiddling with trying to set the right focus > point. Just use your eyes and turn the focus ring to the right spot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
