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Third day: shooting Michelle’s portrait (the portrait test)



Usually when you are used to being tired for school and suddenly you don’t have school to be tired of, you get tired of… doing nothing and it stayed that way until my friend/muse Michelle got on MSN as depressed and tired as I am telling me that she’s free. So I organized a meet for picture taking, with the fall/depression/reminiscence as a vague theme. It was one of those days when you look outside the window and the cloudy sky depresses you more. The D700 was craving for a run and I had to make use of it. So we went out to shoot.



I’ve decided to mainly use the 50 1.4 (again!) to get the shots done. I wanted to explore the area around Metro Laurier near Parc Lafontaine for pictures, especially in the backstreets of that neighborhood.




The shoot started on some walls where I didn’t notice any visual difference between the D90 and the D700 for depth of field until I started shooting high aperture portraits with a farther background than the first shots. Wow, the pictures I got out of the camera were amazing.



The range of bokeh (lens blur) from the sharp foreground of the picture to the background is soooo large that the subject is perfectly isolated and put in value. As usual, low light came really fast but it wasn’t a problem for the D700 to use higher ISO values to shoot what I want when I want and make it look amazingly good. From this day on, I understand why Full Frame FX cameras are the best dSLRs you can get for portraits.




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