A fine character study. As a minor point I would offer that f1.2. may have been too much. Several areas of the face are blurred. When you have a background so far away the f1.2 is not needed. Of course when you own a f1.2 lens, you gotta use it!
Jim Rickards wrote:
A fine character study. As a minor point I would offer that f1.2. may have been too much. Several areas of the face are blurred. When you have a background so far away the f1.2 is not needed. Of course when you own a f1.2 lens, you gotta use it!
Besides when you own f1.2 you GOTTA use it I tend to open wide when it's a face showing signs of age, women always appreciate that rather than being all sharp and in this case that's my mum and I guess it was shortly after I got the lens so I just wanted to test it but you are right, when so far off the background no need to go wide open, when I was using 85mm on D-SLR I found my sweet spot between f2.8 and f3.2 for the headshot like kind of portraits.
