Gold portrait (retriever) - Samyang 1.4/85

[Olivier]

I'm living in his house...
Thanks to him to have rescue me...



Shot with Samyang 1.4/85 wide open, mounted on 5D MkII.
Click on picture to open HQ.

[Orio]

Lovely guy

[poilu]

great focus precision, do you get a good success rate @1.4

[Dionysus]

Nice job capturing his peaceful dream
My dog is my model when i test new lens in portrait situation lol

[patrickh]

Very fine portrait


patrickh

[Olivier]

Thank you.

A nice little boy... 8 years old.
Pets are great models for MF lenses trials. I like shooting cats either, with a canon, not a gun...

Poilu, yes I have a good success rate at 1.4.
This shot was taken handheld without flash, just the lamp light, and the great Iso abilities of the 5D². I didn't use Liveview.
I think that the chip I glued on the EF mount is well calibrated. Its a programmable one and I entered the aperture and the focal length. It works well.
The clarity of the 5D² matte screen of the viewfinder helps a lot.

[mo]

[Geoff C. Bassett]

Absolutely gorgeous shot. Great focus and colors.

[Olivier]

Thank you Moïra and Geoff.

The shoe eating period is far away and so now it's only pleasure.
Before him (we rescued him from the animals "refuge" 2 years ago), we have had a couple of gold labradors.
My wife and I met with the help of our dogs. You know, that's the 101 dalmatians revisited. She had a boy named Goliath, I had a girl named Fidji.
My beloved Fidji I had when she was 3 months old. I lived the carpets eating period, the shoes eating one and, one evening coming back very late from work, I found the whole phone book in pieces all over the floor...
She died in my arms on my birthday after 13 years of happiness...
We didn't have dogs for few years and cracked again. We don't regret it, he makes the whole family very happy. We know we'll be very sad again some day, but that's life...