Re: Facebook discussion on sharpness in portraits

2010-12-29 Thread Larry Colen
On Dec 28, 2010, at 9:03 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Steven Desjardins All absolute rules are dumb except this one. If you don't have rules, how do you know when the time has come to break them? Mark! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Facebook discussion on sharpness in portraits

2010-12-28 Thread Boris Liberman
Larry, I think one has to tell apart resolution vs sharp focus. It is hard to explain in words, for I lack terms, but consider a soft focus lens, such as 85/2.8 by Pentax. I used to have one, so I speak from a bit of experience. At f/2.8 the outcome was soft but looking at 100% image, the

Re: Facebook discussion on sharpness in portraits

2010-12-28 Thread John Sessoms
From: Steven Desjardins All absolute rules are dumb except this one. If you don't have rules, how do you know when the time has come to break them? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the

Facebook discussion on sharpness in portraits

2010-12-27 Thread Larry Colen
I posted a link in facebook to some photos of Zab that I took during the photo shoot of Matthew: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157625554834337/ which I think are a big improvement over photos I took of her on Boxing day four years previously:

Re: Facebook discussion on sharpness in portraits

2010-12-27 Thread Peter Loveday
harden, such details too, rather than making a soft photo. - Peter -Original Message- From: Larry Colen Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 3:06 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Facebook discussion on sharpness in portraits I posted a link in facebook to some photos of Zab that I

RE: Facebook discussion on sharpness in portraits

2010-12-27 Thread Tanya Love
2010 7:47 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Facebook discussion on sharpness in portraits To me that's a relatively useless generalisation. There are times you want a softer look in nature and many times you want a sharp look in portraits. Sure if you're trying to hide someone's age, you

Re: Facebook discussion on sharpness in portraits

2010-12-27 Thread Steven Desjardins
All absolute rules are dumb except this one. ;-) I tend to prefer sharpness at all times and touch up in PP if needed. On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: I posted a link in facebook to some photos of Zab that I took during the photo shoot of Matthew: