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Peter Dexter

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Here she is playing with new makeup and colored contact lenses I brought from the US while I am trying out a Zeiss Batis 85 1.8 lens. I moved her away from the wall as far as I could to defocus it's texture but it was a small room and the lens on a Sony a6000 becomes more of a telephoto than I expected.

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Chris Calohan

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Couldn't you could have gone to 2.8 or even 3.5 and still gotten good bleed off on her hair and more easily blurred the BG?
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Here she is playing with new makeup and colored contact lenses I brought from the US while I am trying out a Zeiss Batis 85 1.8 lens. I moved her away from the wall as far as I could to defocus it's texture but it was a small room and the lens on a Sony a6000 becomes more of a telephoto than I expected.

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Peter,

Congrats on this superb glass. I wish you buckets of joy with it.

With such a lens, I assume that wide open it's going to be fine and rarely do I go to tighter than f 4.0 for portraits.

Looking forward to seeing more.

Asher
 
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Peter Dexter

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Thank you both. It was shot at 2.2. I'm a novice at post processing. I did use portrait pro because close up her face is a bit rough. An issue with that tool is it always tends to lighten the skin it is worked on.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Thank you both. It was shot at 2.2. I'm a novice at post processing. I did use portrait pro because close up her face is a bit rough. An issue with that tool is it always tends to lighten the skin it is worked on.

Then try wide open! She's a lovely model.

Asher
 

James Lemon

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Not easy achieving a shallow depth of field with a cropped sensor. The task would be much easier with a full frame or medium format.
 
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