[Leica] Re: Focus on the glasses? Or the eyeballs?

[firkin at balhpl01.ncable.net.au (firkin)]

I agree with your choice: if the frames were out of focus, I think the 
portrait would look weird: then again, sometimes weird is what we need ;-) 

Kyle Cassidy writes: 

> Someone rightly pointed out that in my recent portrait of george crumb 
> 
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/paw/2005/31/2.jpg 
> 
> I focused on the eyeglass frames, rather than the eyeballs -- and this is
> something I've always done thinking that if the eyeglass frames are in
> focus, it gives us the illusion that the FACE is in focus in a way that
> sharp eyeballs and blurry glasses frames doesn't. is there real 
> conventional
> wisdom on this? What do the real photographers do? 
> 
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