Things I learned from this shot

I had this idea for a thread a while back and the natural vs. strobe thread told me to get it started.

Post a shot (be it a good one or bad one) and choose something you wish you had done differently or if you had an "Ah-Ha!" moment. Give details on who what where why etc. Ill start it off.


I really wish I had shot this at a narrower aperture and had more of her far eye in focus. I was shooting full body shots at F2.0 and then, since I was using an 85mm prime, I walked closer to get this headshot. I think having her other eye more in focus makes a more pleasing image. It was shot at 1/250th of a second, ISO 200, F2.0. So I could have shot it at the same ISO, 1/125th of a second and F2.8 for the same exposure and more depth of field. Even the same setting, iso 800 and F4 might have been even better. Mental note: Stop down when in close unless I want really shallow DOF. On a side note, perhaps turn her head more to get her eyes closer to the focus plane.

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LoL I guess it wasnt such a good idea after all.

Give it a chance... I have no images to put in as I'm on my ipad otherwise I would!

CF cards are cheap bro. Always take 10 shots with different settings.

Its not a bad picture, though depending on what your preference is.

JTX wrote in post #15146066
CF cards are cheap bro. Always take 10 shots with different settings.

Its not a bad picture, though depending on what your preference is.

Good tip! You didnt post a picture of your memory card being full though.

cool idea for a thread.

Im on my phone, if not I would post something, good Idea for tread