Sparrow
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sorry couldn't help it, F3 and the 105/2.5
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Nice photograph and unusual focus on the far eye Stewart ... was that deliberate?
Pickett Wilson
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The DOF is too shallow for this kind of portrait. Really draws attention to itself rather than the subject.
Sparrow
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Gosh no ... snap and wish
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Sparrow
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the others were much worse
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I don't necessarily agree with that ... but I think it would have worked better with the focus on the near eye!
Sparrow
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Naa .. the composition would be wrong, too close to the LH side
Sparrow
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PS ones eye would have gone of to the top left,, and out of the frame
squirrel$$$bandit
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Personally, I like the DOF and far-eye focus. I think it's a terrific portrait.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Maybe a stop down would have brought her nose and mouth a little more into focus ... but you probably don't like that idea either! 
Sparrow
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thanks, I was just blowing off the end of the film. In a dark hotel-room overlooking lake Windermere, my daughter ... she took the better picks that day
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2453/4083007605_f0e55707a0_b.jpg
squirrel$$$bandit
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I saw that on your flickr today, Sparrow, what's she shooting with?
Sparrow
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Maybe a stop down would have brought her nose and mouth a little more into focus ... but you probably don't like that idea either!
I'm a RF type of guy, so f2.5 sounds OK, f3 2.5/105 comes as a bit of a surprise
Sparrow
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Minolta x-700, that looks like the 28, she has the f2/50 and the f2.8/135 ... and my film probably
She took these: photos from Alice's second film
the focus is a bit if'y on that last one :
shabby
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Richard G
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I like your portrait...the left hand fingernail in focus is an interesting touch as well. I see what the others mean too. You're very gracious about the feedback. My daughter, 16, has also taken to film, which she also doesn't pay for. I bought her a Nikon F3HP, Italian designed body but its blokiness otherwise seems to suit her. She uses PCs in preference to Macs and despite her bluntness hasn't said that an RF is a girl's camera but she probably thinks so.
Roger Hicks
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Dear Stewart,
The focus was God is punishing you for not using an RF.
Seriously, nice portrait -- and I think the focus works. The far eye is far more dramatic than the near eye would have been, though ideally I'd have used 8x10 and the 21 inch Ross, with a tiny bit of swing back to hold both eyes.
Although it's probably terribly politically incorrect to say, "You have a very attractive daighter, and photographed her well," you have, and you did.
Cheers,
R.
The focus was God is punishing you for not using an RF.
Seriously, nice portrait -- and I think the focus works. The far eye is far more dramatic than the near eye would have been, though ideally I'd have used 8x10 and the 21 inch Ross, with a tiny bit of swing back to hold both eyes.
Although it's probably terribly politically incorrect to say, "You have a very attractive daighter, and photographed her well," you have, and you did.
Cheers,
R.
Sparrow
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too much wine not enough dinner sorry, I abandoned LF in my teens ... thankfully.
She dances too, and correctness is not an issue, beauty is what beauty is.
Regards
Shac
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Portrait works for me Stewart - nice to see the "rule" broken
