Min DOF Photography

Taking photos with 85L@f2.8…

But it’s really one of the few. ISO 800, taken on the session that I forgot to set ISO to 100-200 (a while ago if you still remember).

Damn, this lens would really come in handy for sunday’s fashion session. At least there’s a chance I’ll get the 1Ds mkII. Keep your fingers crossed! . Because everything else has been arranged; I’ve found a perfect place for the session, I’ve got a great model, an assistant, make up artist and a few (I hope) interesting ideas. I’ve talked about everything regarding the session with Jessica (model) yesterday, from styling, to ideas and make up. I just hope for lots of sunshine on sunday…

Canon, Nikon, lens, depth of field, flash, aperture, raw, jpg, Pentax, portrait, portrait photography

About this shot. I can’t make up my mind. One of those, that I can’t put my finger on: is it good or bad…

What do you think? Please be honest, hypocrisy won’t get me anywhere.

I went through the 85L train session aka Hip hop honey session again and found another interesting photo. I posted it also in a couple of web galleries and people seem to like it.

I hope you like it too (best viewed larger):

Dunno, I just do…I hope your monitors are correctly calibrated.

85L@f1.2

I don’t know why, but I like those photos in a strange way – as snapshots ofcourse. The first and main reason why I’m posting is, because I figured out you don’t respond well to solely textual posts. I can understand why, after all this is a photo blog. So let’s get down to it.

Yeah, that’s me muthafuckaz (foto: Nikolaj Lukež). ISO 800+ 2 stops in rawshooter. Yeah baby, it’s a Canon (check the post before this one, LOL):

Min dof+bokeh showoff

DOF as in depth of field. To me the most important aspect of the technical part of photography. Even more important than bokeh and sharpness. That’s why I love primes. And that’s why I’ll use primes ’till I die. Zooms are just necessary evil, I avoid using them whenever possible.

Visual interpretation of DOF taken with 350D and 85L II at f1.4 (enlarge it!):

Taken from dpreview forums, I couldn’t agree more:

Give me a world with no edges,
A happy space knowing nothing about outlines.
Grant me, please, the round joy
Of thoughtlessly floating on the blurred
Background of my photographs.

If someone doesn’t get the picture, here’s what I mean:

Complete review is available here www.slo-foto.net .

Kit=Canon 1Ds mkII+85 1.2L II.

Photo: Andrej Jerše

Canon 1Ds mkII+85 1.2L II. Fresh, straight out of the camera (through rawshooter of course).