Julia w/85F1.2 L

canon-5D · August 10, 2005

Hello:

Stumbled into this forum and have been very impressed with the shots that I am seeing!! Here are a couple of my daughter Julia (my only willing subject!!)taken with my newly acquired 85L. It really is a special lens and I am smitten with the optic as well as my subject!:lust

DavidTO · August 10, 2005

fantastic shots. I love the stuff on her face, the DOF and her expressions.

ginger_55 · August 10, 2005

Wonderful expressions, good captures. And I love her outfit in the first shot.

ginger

gluwater · August 10, 2005

Absolutely adorable!!!!

canon-5d hahahahaha

grabed that name pretty quick

keep up the posts

Nick

gus · August 10, 2005

Great shots ! & welcome to D/gin.

I want that lens !!!

Gus

thegreenegg · August 10, 2005

They are very cute candids with that extra flare to make them even better. Wonderful captures and I really like the lighting on the second. Welcome to dgrin.!
Ashley

Nir · August 10, 2005

Beautiful shots 5D!! Welcome aboard!

canon-5D · August 10, 2005

Thanks for all the nice comments!! Yes, the lens is terrific and I highly recommend it to anyone that can get their hands on one......ridiculously expensive but when you see what it can do, I find it well worth the extra $!!

canon-5D · August 12, 2005

gluwater wrote:

Absolutely adorable!!!!

canon-5d hahahahaha
grabed that name pretty quick

keep up the posts

Nick

Yeah.....just had to pick this ID even though I really couldn't care less what camera comes out!! I have my preferred camera body and am perfectly happy with it; now new lenses are a totally different topic!!

KimR · August 12, 2005

I really like the orange color on the 2nd one...
in the background though on our right... is that a vase? It kind of drew my eye that direction! BUT love the orange and the contrast to that blonde hair!!

great shots!

canon-5D · August 13, 2005

KimR wrote:

I really like the orange color on the 2nd one...
in the background though on our right... is that a vase? It kind of drew my eye that direction! BUT love the orange and the contrast to that blonde hair!!

great shots!

Actually the thing in the background is one of Julia's wooden chairs!! The orange is in a lot of the shots because that is the colour of her room!! Thanks for the nice comments!!

auraflora · August 13, 2005

I would be smitten too--besides having a wonderful and sdorable model--you have wonderful DOF and clarity. I love the softness in the first photograph.

Thanks for sharing

Michal

Maestro · August 13, 2005

Wow, great shots! Did you put that border around the pics in PS?

canon-5D · August 14, 2005

Maestro wrote:

Wow, great shots! Did you put that border around the pics in PS?

Thanks!! The border is from a program called Extensis FrameMaker......not a plugin but stand-alone.......I just use a stock frame and tweak it until I like the look!!

canon-5D · August 14, 2005

auraflora wrote:

I would be smitten too--besides having a wonderful and sdorable model--you have wonderful DOF and clarity. I love the softness in the first photograph.

Thanks for sharing

Michal

Thanks a lot!! The first shot also shows that Julia had just raided the cookie jar, hence the crumbs all over her face!!

pathfinder · August 14, 2005

Welcome to dgrin Canon-5d. I love your images. The sharpness fading into the nice, soft background bokeh is just luscious. The 85 f1.2 L is a great lens, heavy, slow to focus, large, and expensive. But when shot wide open or at f1.4 it is superb.

The first shot was illuminated with window light I believe. What lighting was used for the second shot? It has a nice luminous quality also.

benbo · August 14, 2005

Great shots.....Those are keeper...
Benbo

canon-5D · August 15, 2005

pathfinder wrote:

Welcome to dgrin Canon-5d. I love your images. The sharpness fading into the nice, soft background bokeh is just luscious. The 85 f1.2 L is a great lens, heavy, slow to focus, large, and expensive. But when shot wide open or at f1.4 it is superb.

The first shot was illuminated with window light I believe. What lighting was used for the second shot? It has a nice luminous quality also.

Thanks for the kind remarks!! It is a lens that I find worth its exorbitant price tag!! You are right about the 1st shot....just taken beside a window. The 2nd shot was done using my 420EX flash bounced off a white ceiling.....just wanted to see how this thing held up when using a little fill-flash.