Mike, But by decreasing DOF you can effectively concentrate only on that part of the face that you want to show. For example if the model for some reason has really ugly ears, by throwing them out of sharply rendered space you can at least partially solve this problem.
Another point that occurred to me is that given the fact that on digital you use only part of the image circle of the lens (77 Ltd) you can take a step or may be even two back away from the model. What I am really driving at, is that (having had Tamron 90/2.5) 77 Ltd is very sharp, but it is still not a macro lens. The photographer has some means to use in order to get softer loon on their picture. But then again, sometimes one still has no choice but to apply a certain degree of post processing to the image. Boris mike wilson wrote: > Boris Liberman wrote: > >> First of, I still think that by opening aperture (and the lens >> is fast enough) you can decrease sharpness... > > Hmmm. You can decrease the depth of the plane of focus but you can't > (afaik) decrease the sharpness of it. Thereby giving a softer look to > more of the picture. Is that what you mean? > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
