Photos taken with 85mm 1.2L @ f/1.2 (ONLY f/1.2 shots)

plasticmotif wrote in post #9937070
that's a good shot. The 'very soft' comment is silly. His eye lashes are distinguishable from each other.

Thanks Plasticmotif, it's one of my favorite shots that I've taken with the 85LII.

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plasticmotif wrote in post #9937070
that's a good shot. The 'very soft' comment is silly. His eye lashes are distinguishable from each other.

Sorry but that is not a good shot and why is eylashes being distinguishable make it a good shot is beyond me.

timnosenzo wrote in post #9937151
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Now that I do like.

timnosenzo wrote in post #9937151
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timnosenzo, Wow, nice control of the focus!

JonK, great shot, dog looks sad.

malla1962 wrote in post #9934674
Looks very soft to me.

1.2 is paper thin DOF to work with. This shot if anything has a "look" to it that razor sharpness wouldn't necessarily improve. If I was that couple I would love having that shot. You can't forget that most customers aren't going to debate the focus point. They just like the picture. Nice work. I have never done a wedding but am "studying up" here and there is a ton of great info and work to look at.

Bradfordguy wrote in post #9937242
1.2 is paper thin DOF to work with. This shot if anything has a "look" to it that razor sharpness wouldn't necessarily improve. If I was that couple I would love having that shot. You can't forget that most customers aren't going to debate the focus point. They just like the picture. Nice work. I have never done a wedding but am "studying up" here and there is a ton of great info and work to look at.

Thanks Bradfordguy, the couple that hired us totally love the shot.

malla1962, I appreciate your comments, and enjoy reading your view point as well. Because I deal with clients that vary much could be someone like yourself. The good thing is my wife takes photographs with me as well; so she likes to use f/2.8 and f/4.0. So we give our clients variety of photography techniques.

Dumping my photos taken at 1.2 with the 85L.

One of the first test shots I did after acquiring the 85L

Omaru wrote in post #9937325
This one I missed the focus, I was focusing at her right eye but focus was at the left eye.

Wow, I am amazed at how well f/1.2 shots can look when properly controlled! I think the missed focus isn't even noticeable, if you hadn't mentioned it.

great shots! i just recently got this lens and its been quite a struggle for me to focus at f/1.2

i definitely need more practice...

iFloyd wrote in post #9937363
great shots! i just recently got this lens and its been quite a struggle for me to focus at f/1.2

i definitely need more practice...

I'm in the same boat. That's why I created this thread; so I could get motivation to use it at f/1.2. So far the shots posted here are really awesome!

When I look at these pictures, and I include my own pictures that I've taken with an f/1.4 lens, I can't help but feel that the background looks like a fake, flat painted backdrop. I actually feel like photos really lose something when the background is so smooth and "creamy" that all sense of depth is lost.

Because of this, I've begun to reserve this kind of wide open super shallow DOF shooting to situations where all the background structures are very close and crowded, so that you'll still see a transition of focus. Otherwise, the subject is just so isolated from the background that you may as well have photoshopped them into the picture.

Outside, when the background is more distant (or has a range of distances), I tend to stop down more (to f/2.2 or so). While lenses with more "graphic" bokeh are generally less well-regarded here, they actually solve this problem.

DrPablo wrote in post #9937422
When I look at these pictures, and I include my own pictures that I've taken with an f/1.4 lens, I can't help but feel that the background looks like a fake, flat painted backdrop. I actually feel like photos really lose something when the background is so smooth and "creamy" that all sense of depth is lost.

Because of this, I've begun to reserve this kind of wide open super shallow DOF shooting to situations where all the background structures are very close and crowded, so that you'll still see a transition of focus. Otherwise, the subject is just so isolated from the background that you may as well have photoshopped them into the picture.

Outside, when the background is more distant (or has a range of distances), I tend to stop down more (to f/2.2 or so). While lenses with more "graphic" bokeh are generally less well-regarded here, they actually solve this problem.

Doc,
I definitely think it a personal preference thing. For me it depends on the subject and what I'm trying to achieve.

Heres wide open with a bit of CA.

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