Thread: Square Portrait EM5 + Olympus 75mm 1.8

LOL! But the way you portray her sure makes her look angelic!

Christina, do you have to stand a pretty good distance off? Typically about how far to get a head and shoulders photo?

I'm a lazy photographer and most often I'll be sitting at my table with my iMac, grab the camera from next to me and fire off a few shots if the light is nice. I guess she's sitting about 5 or 6 feet away from me. I may have to lean a little back but it's certainly no great distance.

I had the 70/2.4 Ltd briefly for the K5, and it was a very nice lens. Although the focal length is different, I'm very tempted to get the 75/1.8. This is going to sound weird, but I totally will hate the silver lens on my black OMD though!

Yeah, I've been surprised at just how useable that lens is. I thought it might be too long a lot of the time and I'd end up using the 45 a lot. But even in relatively small rooms, it's good for chest up portraits and if you're sitting close to the subject, it's still good for close head and shoulders or just head shots. I've used the 45 once since I've had the 75 and the shots I did would have worked fine with the longer lens. Now I'm contemplating selling the 45....

-Ray

Actually Ray, the pics of your wife and daughter convinced me that this lens is totally useable :)

Armanius, it has a black lens cap so this kind of ties it in with the black body, no? LOL!

What?? A silver lens and it doesn't come with a silver cap? Outrageous!! :)

I totally regret not waiting longer for the silver OMD instead of the all black. Sigh ...

Yeah, I got the black one too but since I'm always behind it I don't really notice....... !

Now I have to decide between the black vs silver X20! Fortunately, no lenses to match on that camera!

Beautiful portraits.