Lately I started to get a feeling that many of my portraits lack definition, clarity and resolution (for a lack of a better word).
They just feel like low quality somehow. Although all of my gear is top notch
I started comparing images from different scanners, film stocks, lenses, etc.
(Maybe this attention to sharpness started when I switched from MF to LF recently.)
And I think that my answer lies in DOF. I hardly stop down my lenses. On none of my formats.
I was always looking for the 3D effect and soft backgrounds. And I think that might have just let to a lot soft images that actually looked rather flat then anything else.
I guess there's something like a minimum DOF that I have to keep in mind.
Does that make any sense?
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