Portraits
21 April 2008
Shot a few portraits this weekend.
A discussion on the Leica mailing list inspired me to get out a vintage Canon 1.2 lens I use periodically for low-light shooting and repurpose it as a portrait lens. Makes sense - a 50mm lens on the M8 approaches a portrait focal lenght. But try using it with a very shallow DOF instead of the typical f8.
Here are some examples...
A discussion on the Leica mailing list inspired me to get out a vintage Canon 1.2 lens I use periodically for low-light shooting and repurpose it as a portrait lens. Makes sense - a 50mm lens on the M8 approaches a portrait focal lenght. But try using it with a very shallow DOF instead of the typical f8.
Here are some examples...
I'm very happy with the results. Square format (doing
a fair amount of this recently) with a slightly toned
B/W look. Nice.
On the Lightroom front, a few great things over the
past few weeks:
CameraPorn (yes, I know) has a
good tutorial on importing and organizing images
in Lightroom.
Inside Lightroom has a series
of things on the new LR2 beta as well:
Thats all for today. Cheers!
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