In the old days they used a 5x7 camera and retouched the negative. These days I would recommend Photoshop. --graywolf
----- Original Message ----- From: wendy beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:21 PM Subject: Portrait lenses > A couple of days ago there was a thread about portrait lenses and macro > lenses of roughly the same focal length (around 100mm). Excuse me waffling, > but it's late. > Anyway, I would just like to iterate, if anyone is thinking of going into > portraiture, then don't use a lens that is TOO SHARP! > Why am I saying this? I was just given copies of photos taken at my work's > Christmas 'do' . Portrait of self and hubby by the Christmas tree. Good > grief! It showed wrinkles ON wrinkles, it was that sharp. Heaven help the > younger, spottier members of staff. Their portraits would not be sitting on > anyone's mantlepiece! > > Wendy > > --- > Wendy Beard > Ottawa, Canada > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > home page http://www.beard-redfern.com > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
