Niece with the Canon 200/2

People photography isn't my usual thing. As someone here once said, "If a person wanders into the shot, I politely wait for them to leave..." However, I got an idea of a nice gift for my sister being a few photos of her daughter. Niece Lauren only does texts, so I suggested meeting up this Sunday to see what we could shoot. I rented the Canon 200/2 and we set out for Discovery Park in 25 degree weather.

I practiced a bit and noticed that the AF using metabones 2 on my A7R wasn't that reliable. So for these shots I went with MF, no tripod and put my faith in IS. We were in the park at 330pm, but the light didn't get good until about an hour later.

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Wow, combining the beautiful girl and wonderful light has culminated in a lovely set.
Favourites are first and last, but they're all keepers for me.

awesome shots!

only lens on my wish list ill probably never be able to justify

I hear you....its a hard one for me to justify as well. I tend to cringe when people corral a lens into a single genre but this is kind of a portrait lens only. Now add a teleconverter and then you can do nice distance shots

Nice set and I love the rendering of the 200. I would do some skin clean up as it will go a long way to making these portraits very special.

yes definitely on the skin cleanup

Very nice photos. #1 and #4 work for me. I like the lighting on these I would try to work on the flying hair. That is one of my biggest problems. I tend not to notice until I start working on them on the computer.

yeah no kidding....and these are the least flying hair shots