[PIC_THREAD] People, Portraits, Street

A couple from another test today. Prefer this girl, charming as anything and a proper trooper, don't tell the others though :)

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Haha it's a brenizer from the 85 - not quite in a state to do the math to work out what sort of lens it's equivalent to in terms of focal length and aperture but I'll do it at some point. I saw the trees and had a stab at it - was I being more conscious of it all I'd probably have stepped a bit closer and exaggerated the perspective a bit more, but this is one of the first times that a brenizer's actually worked for me - Photoshop has a very hard time putting out of focus areas together with Photomerge.
 
Turns out I am in such a state. It's roughly equivalent to a 45mm f/0.7 though I am a fair way back so I could probably have gotten a more interesting composition than I did. Still like it though :)
 
Yeh I'v tried Brenizer method once, I found it an bit hit or miss. Tbh I would have just stuck with the 35. It's harder to distinguish the shallower DOF from wider shots as the back ground isn't as magnified and looks less OOF. Besides, capturing the right pose/expression is more important than getting a little shallower DOF imo.

Can you post the first frame?
 
Oh yeah I know it doesn't make a huge difference, I just saw the trees and figured I'd try it out as I didn't have any subjects moving around so it worked reasonably well. It works better in the actual panoramic crops I'm using it for, but they look pants at web sizes.

I had the 85 on, I just wanted to try the perspective. Had I been closer the advantage of using the brenizer would have been much more apparent whereas it's muted by the working distance here. I only have one body so swapping while on a test shoot wasn't really an option.

My tests tend to be equally about getting to know the model an seeing how we work together as they are about the images I get out of it nowadays, so swapping to the 35 then firing off a series and working deliberately on the posing was rather unnecessary here as I'd seen she was capable of it already.
 
Trouble is, the closer you get, the harder brenz method becomes due to more exaggerated camera angle changes.
Before I had 2 bodies I used a thinktank belt with pouches. Don't need to use lens caps, and lens changes only took a few seconds. There is a good/fast technique using your index finger, maybe you know about it?
Lastly what are these 'tests' for, and where are you getting these models.. MM or something?

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Also I can't tell if it's artefacts from my retina screen, but are you adding grain these days?
 
Yeah I've been looking over Lara Jade's stuff specifically so I've been experimenting with grain just to see how it is, at least in the web images. Particularly on my black and whites to keep some texture even though I've clipped the blacks.

Mixture of MM, people contacting me through facebook, friends etc. I've been tentative to shoot with immediate friends recently as it always causes a bit of drama among teenage girls of the "she's not even that pretty" variety.
 
Another headless one while waiting for a train, just a matter of getting as much work done for my school art projects as possible at the moment, which at least gives me a couple of bits that I can post online haha. Really like where this series is going but it's not /quite/ there yet.

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