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Performance on a Portrait at f/5.6
This page examines the kind of shot one might make when photographing a small group of people or similar, with the subjects more or less lined up for a frontal shot.
Images converted using Adobe Camera Raw 9.2 (486). All camera and lens corrections DISABLED both in camera and during RAW conversion.
Among the huge aspen @ f/5.6
These aspen may be the largest in the entire Eastern Sierra Nevada. Here, there are only medium size specimens. All trunks including the largest and most beautiful along the trail have been defaced by years of nitwits with knives. For your author, the appreciation of beauty does not entail destroying it.
ACR Settings, Camera Profile = Adobe Standard. The very bluish light was neutralized.
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Canon EOS 5DS R + Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L II
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