On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Walt <ldott...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/15/2013 1:23 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> LeeAnn has a wonderful smile, and to truly show it off to it's >> best advantage, you really need to come in closer and shoot >> more portraits. Even if that means you need to invest in a 77/1.8. >> :-) > > Someday. If I have to move heaven and earth, I'll have one.
You know, given that you have an APS-C body, you are better off with your fast 50mm for portraits than you would be with a 77mm. Classic portrait lenses are typically found around the 70-80mm range on 35mm film format and that 50mm is equivalent to 75mm on your APS-C body so it's nicely situated in that "portrait" range. You really don't want to be too far from your subject when you're shooting people. You need to interact with them: suggest poses, wave your arm to indicate "look over here", etc. Plus it helps make them less nervous if you aren't 15 or 20 feet away with a long lens. Save the dough, Walt. You'll find something more useful to blow a grand on. :) -- -bmw -- 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.
