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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kotsinadelis,
> Please
> take a look
> at any of the famous portraits and I doubt that you will see any where the
> nose and/or ears are not in focus. If so it is a snapshot and not
> necessarily a "planned" portrait.
I know that Patrick Demarchelier and Vera Friederich have some
upper-body/face photographs in their books that do not have the ears in
focus. And it does not disturb me at all. Right now I am at work but I could
check some books at home and I am sure in most books I would find at least
some photographs where the ears are not in focus. I never claimed that the
ears should be out-off-focus all the time(and I mentioned before that an
out-off-focus nose might look funny). Nevertheless, for some pictures it
works very well and such pictures you find in many books. Of course most
people who want to have a simple portrait taken by a photographer expect the
whole face to be in focus. But anybody who goes beyond that will find that
in some cases short DOF looks very appealing. I could go back to technical
aspects and claim that a fast 2.8 lens has the advantage that it works
almost at it's best at 5.6 which is not true for a 4.5 lens. But I leave it
with that. Conclusion: Most portraits are taken with the whole face in focus
but there are portraits where an out-of-focus ear, etc is desirable for a
very nice effect.
Robert
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