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7.16.2017

A portrait made with a 135mm f2.3 lens, shot wide open. Always wondered what that looked like.


Sara and I had just mostly finished up our portrait session. We'd been shooting with flash and the Sony A7ii with a 70-200mm f4.0. I noticed that the afternoon light looked really nice coming through the diffusion I had up over the window so I asked her to be patient while I found my 135mm lens in a drawer. It's a manual focus lens so I was depending on the focus peaking feature in my camera to help nail focus. I'd pretty much given up shooting wide open with long fast lenses when using traditional DSLRs because I had so much trouble with front and back focusing at various distances with that style of camera. With the Sony cameras I am getting my close focusing, wide open confidence back again.

I shot a selection of images with the camera on a tripod and then we called it a day. 

Today I noticed that Sara had selected several of the wide open images. I retouched them in my usual way and sent them along. I really liked the feel of this one so I wanted to share it here. 

The long, fast lenses are why I am loathe to consider changing systems from Sony.....

Here's the lens I was using: 


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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousJuly 16, 2017 at 10:29 PM

    Kirk

    The skin color is lovely. The eyes you can fall into. The detailed to soft flowing locks of hair. Beautiful portrait. Maybe more for the home rather then business.

    Jay

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