On 5/15/2013 6:20 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
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
I am just so taken with the rendering of the 77/1.8. I got a shot (now
lost to a drive crash some time ago) of a young lady in a red dress at a
bar in Santa Cruz using Larry's copy that made me want to sell my soul
for that lens. The shot wasn't that great -- terribly underexposed, in
fact. But, there was something about the look of that shot that I just
can't quantify. I was immediately smitten, though. And I think it would
be perfect for my casual, unposed and environmental portraits -- just
enough focal length to allow me a little stealth.
My F 50/1.7 and FA 50/1.4 are no slouches by any means. In fact, I've
shot with little else since owning them and have been very happy with
them both. But that 77/1.8 is a bit of a holy grail for me.
But, yeah -- there are more useful things to spend the money on -- and
it's going to be a while before I sock away enough dough to get it. I'll
focus on more practical things in the meantime -- like reflectors,
lighting, etc.
-- Walt
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