Phoebe’s Portrait with Canon 85mm F1.2

This afternoon I had the pleasure of doing a photo shoot with Phoebe using my new lens. While I have used it a couple of times now with a wedding and family portraits, It wasnt until today that I used it in very low light of the late afternoon shade under the overhanging tree’s. The first shot was under the cover and shot at F1.2 and wow the amount of depth of field was very shallow to say the least, it extend from the left hand side of her eye to the edge of her nose. But it left nothing in the background sharp what so ever. Plus I have also found that the edges at F1.2 are a little dark and I have been told that shooting at F2.0 will give a better result, but I like the challenge of shooting at 1.2 and I love the effect that it give.

There is no question at all that this lens is an amazing lens for shooting portraits and I have found that I am now leaving my 70-200mm in my bag now for in favour of the 85mm.

This second shot I shot near the surrounding fence of the park and this one is shot at F2.0 and still you can see quite strongly that the background is way out of focus. I asked Phoebe to give me a sultry look and at the time after looking at the shots on the back of my camera she was of the opinion that she didn’t pull it off, I beg to differ and think she did a great job, and this was her first time for doing this kind of shoot. Great work.

~ by caseysmith on October 31, 2009.