It’s been a long long week


It’s been a long long week, originally uploaded by john m flores.
I’m starting to think that there’s some special sauce in the Panasonic 20 F1.7 because you can achieve a nice, subtle 3D effect when it’s shot wide open from a certain distance, say 5 to 6 feet. Here, this fellow is pretty sharp from head to toe while the background has a delicate soft focus. If you look at the grab bar above his head you can see that the depth of field a handful of feet deep, from his elbow, across his body, and a bit beyond. This is a very workable DOF for these kinds of shots. And it helps that the lens is sharp even wide open.

I also like the rendering of his houndstooth coat, including the wrinkles in his sleeve. At 100% there is a little splotchiness along the back, near the bottom, in the shadow. It’s could be a little moire coming through.

Panasonic GH2 with 20mm F1.7 @ ISO800, F1.7, 1/125