A shot of Tara..

zoomer

This is from the gallery I posted last week, I downsized this one for her so decided to post it.

Shima

Her eyes draw me straight into this photo. Not sure I'm a huge fan of losing the hand on that arm we see in here, but overall I really did the photo.

zoomer

Hi Shima,
Didn't notice the clip, thanks for pointing that out.
I think I will go back and crop the top off.
Appreciate the comment.

adbsgicom

Beautiful eyes and I like the pose. Agree w/ Shima about the upper hand clipping and the tips of the fingers dropping back in.

heatherfeather

Beautiful! It doesn't look like you had to do all that much to her skin. But wow! those eyes are amazing! Love the bokeh fall off. Must have been your 70-200 at about 5.6?

zoomer

Thanks everyone,
I believe this is with the 85 at 1.8.

JayClark79

zoomer wrote:

Thanks everyone,
I believe this is with the 85 at 1.8.

Wow you got alot in focus here for 1.8!

zoomer

I think it is a bit of an optical illusion due to the angle.
It may have been at f2 but I don't think I have ever had that lens beyond that.

toddb

depth
Definitely an illusion -- maybe because of the fence. Can see it's a pretty shallow DOF looking at the pants legs --- one pretty soft and one real crisp. Really nice shot. Razor sharp eyes. Great pose. Beautiful shot.

I really like it --- I'm always on a different school of thought on the clipping at joints. The focus of this shot is her face/eyes (and maybe the fence)...everything else is an afterthought. I don't care that you clipped part of the hand because I think the overall crop feels just right. I feel like it's one of those rules everyone gets hung up on, but we shouldn't let it control us too much.

Nice work.

peteb

I have spent a bit of time looking around your web site and i wish I had even half no make that a quarter of your talent. I so struggle with posing people and you seem to pull this off so well.

zoomer

Thanks Toddb,
Normally I hate to clip feet or hands, just didn't notice this one.
One of the cool things about very short depth of field is those issue tend to merge into the background.

Thanks Peteb,
Thanks so much for the comment.
The trick for me is to not pose them, I find a background or scene that I like, place the person in the scene where I want them, the actual posing I try to stay out of as much as possible, if they do the pose themselves then they feel more comfortable so they look more natural...the more instructing I do the less natural the poses look generally.