Originally posted by alan_smithee_photos Super nice portrait.
I don't mind the softness. Having things tack sharp is way overrated, imo, especially in portraiture.
With today's fancy auto focus cameras it is trivial to get sharp eyes than with say a manual focus film cameras at wide aperture. So the expectation is higher, I feel. Even in the days of large format where shooting a 300mm lens at close range gave you super shallow DOF you could get sharp eyes.
I think my shot here would not have worked as well with out of focus eyes.
Pentax 67, 105/2.4, 15 years expired TXP 6049