Yes, that's an "exceptional" example. Very good!
John Hermanson
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From: <frieder.faig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Zuiko 50/1.2 and 55/1.2 Lenses
| On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:57:20AM -0500, John Hermanson wrote:
| > I shoot portrait with a minimum of 85mm, 100 is even nicer. To shoot a
| > portrait with a 50, you have to get in too close and you get all the
facial
| > distortion along with it. Try a series of portraits with a 28, 35, 50,
85
| > and 100mm, and let the subject pick out the most pleasing shots. They
will
| > most likely pick the samples taken with the 85 and 100 (Imo).
| >
| > John Hermanson
|
| Yes, this is true most of the time. Wide angel portraiture is a very
special thing.
| But you can get very specail effects portraits. I´ve just noticed a
remarkable
| picture in our unique OM-Galery:
|
| http://www.taiga.ca/~gallery/subpages/fildes/doug_the_gardener.html
|
| Thanks to Andrew Fildes.
| For sure it is a good notewrthy photo. But not everyone has the charakter
| to like such a photo of himself.
|
| Frieder Faig
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