Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jesse Hellman wrote: >>>>>>>Since I take portraits and often am shooting as close as I can, it is something that affects my photographs more than it might others. I want the eyes as sharp as possible and they often are well off center.<<<<<<< Hi Jesse, In this type of situation, if the face is on an angle to the camera, focus on the eye nearest to the camera and all else in the background falls out of focus. It's simple, it works! And unless the face/eyes are at the same parallel to the lens you can't be wide open and have both eyes in focus when shooting on angle to the face. I can't begin to estimate the number of photographs I've shot over the years using this method. And many of those with the Noctilux at f 1.0. This is something I and many others on the LUG do, it's the only way to handle this properly. if your working wide open and very close, as you say you do. ted