portraits Helios 40-2

[arhi_tectu1]

Hello there
Here are some sunset portraits taken with the Helios 40-2(85mm f1.5)
hope you like them

[Nordentro]

I like them all

[poilu]

beautiful! not easy to keep both eyes in focus

[Spotmatic]

Great indeed. More please

[arhi_tectu1]

Thanks to all
i find that this lens is more difficult then others to find and keep the things you want to shoot in focus
(example keeping both eye's in focus)

Regards
Catalin

[patrickh]

Lovely samples of what this fun lens can do


patrickh

[Orio]

[Orio]

Oops... I notice now that the lens is a 40-2, so a 85mm lens.
But the reasoning does not change much: you were more distant, but at the same time a 85mm lens offers less DOF, so the figures I gave should be still reasonably correct.

[arhi_tectu1]

i agree with you orio
it's not possible to have both eyes in focus at full aperture if you shoot from the side (all the shoots where f 1.5 or f2)(and its an 85mm lens) but if you look at the last photo the camera was almost perpendicular to her face
all that i'm trying to say its that from all my "75 and 85mm" lenses i find the helios the most tricky to focus

Regads
Catalin

[Orio]

Well, the last shot does not seem to have a particular focus problem. Perhaps you slightly front-focused, but there isn't a big difference between the two eyes.
So I think it's all normal. Obviously a f/1.5 can be a tough beast to use wide open: it's enough that you, or your subject, slightly tilt after having focused the lens,
even just for breathing, that the perfect focus is gone. But that is true of all f/1.5 lenses, not just of the Helios

[bhargav]

[martinsmith99]

All good, but #2 is my favourite, with #5 close behind.

Forget keeping both eyes in focus wide open.

[pich900]

Great serie, my fav is # 5, I like her smile on this one ....