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Hi Lina,

I enjoyed your site very much. Here's some specific feedback:

1. I love the design of the home page, and how you carry that design forward to the other pages. Attractive and appealing, without being cluttered. Personally, I really like the gray background, although some people might argue for something more striking.

2. The site loads and runs fairly quickly, even on a dial-up.

3. Excellent summary of services and policies on your "About Us" page.....clear and concise.

4. I don't especially like how you present your thumbnails in the portfolio sections. I'd rather see them all on a page, instead of having to scroll up and down. Just a personal preference.

5. Nice selection of photos, and the viewing size is okay.......some might say they're a little small. Overall, I think the site will get stronger and stronger as you keep adding quality images.

6. I found the "Services" page a bit wordy, although I imagine some customers may enjoy that.

7. I think you should put your phone and e-mail information on each page, not just on the "Contact us" page.

Overall, I found it a very appealing website. If I were a potential customer, it would attract my business!

Hope some of these comments are helpful.

Best wishes,

David

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Hello!

Well, I guess this is a portrait, after all. As I've purchased this lens very recently (used, on e-bay, very cheap), I haven't had the choice to do a good people portrait with it yet. This macro shot was made with extension tubes, so the lens optical quality remains untouched. I love the high resolution, the colors and the wonderful bokeh. Yes, you have to manually meter, but that's very easy with a D-SLR. Anyway, the AF version of this 105 Nikkor lens is also outstanding (but I just hadn't the money).


JoeR said:
Lina said:
SEMO said:
Lina said:
Can some one recomend me a good portrait lens that would work great
with my Fuji S2 camera.

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How much do you want to spend and what else would you like to use
the lens for. The 70-200 afs-vr is an excellent portriat lens @
70mm and gives you a great telephoto to boot but @ a price. The
60mm micro is suppose to have some of the best optics and serves as
a excellent portriat lens plus gives you micro capability, cost is
very resonable
lenses @ an even more resonable price. I have the 1.4 but have
read the 1.8 is better and 100US dollars cheaper. And then there
are the dedicated defocusing lenses. Can't remember their focal
lengths but they are made to allow front and rear control of out of
focus regions. They are more expensive but not budget busters like
the 70-200. Any good primes in the moderate telelphoto realm will
probably fill your bill.
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--I would recommend the Micro Nikkor 105 2.8D. It will knock your
socks off. It costs a little over $500. It works great for
portraits and is outstanding for macro shots. Other lenses pale in
comparison.

JoeR
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As nearly everyone here, I find this lens wonderful. The 1.5 multiplication factor, morevover, makes it very useful for portraits. This one was made with available light, wide open, 1/90 at ISO 1600. I added contrast with PS, but the original shot is very nice and clean.



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'Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?'
Groucho Marx
 
50mm 1.4 Nikkor This equates to a 75mm lens which is considered a classic portrait focal length....well almost anyways...

90mm Tamron Macro lens..... My favorite but I need to get further away from my subjects.....

With all the money you save rather then buying the more expensive lenses you can get some studio lights...or another memory card....or ......

MHO
Kerry
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'There are at least two people in every photograph....the photographer and the viewer'... A. Adams
 
David,

Thank you for such thorough feedback:) I really appreciate the time you took in viewing and responding.

I agree about the portfolio. My DH did the site. And he loves the layout of the portfolio. I am not too crazy about it but its good enough for now:)

Also, I have been playing with my new LENS and I LOVE IT :)

Here are some samples :)

http://www.pbase.com/linashu/park

My son and husband are my ginnie pigs :)

Regards,
Lina
 
Felipe Rodríguez said:
Yes, you have to manually meter, but that's very easy with a
D-SLR.
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What does this mean exactly: Does the meter in the viewfinder show something? And then you have to set both shutter speed and aperture? I dont really understand....

regards Bernie
 
Hello, Bernie. Manually metering means that you have a lightmeter and set the aperture/shutter speed according to what it says, or, more simply (I haven't lightmeter, although I'm considering to get a cheap one), you can choose the parameters you think are accurate, make a test shot and then correct the exposure until you get the good one. It's free! You can do it even without shooting, using the preview histogram option.
I hope this helps.
Bernie Ess said:
Felipe Rodríguez said:
Yes, you have to manually meter, but that's very easy with a
D-SLR.
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What does this mean exactly: Does the meter in the viewfinder show
something? And then you have to set both shutter speed and
aperture? I dont really understand....

regards Bernie
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'Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?'
Groucho Marx
 
Felipe Rodríguez said:
Hello, Bernie. Manually metering means that you have a lightmeter
and set the aperture/shutter speed according to what it says, or,
more simply (I haven't lightmeter, although I'm considering to get
a cheap one), you can choose the parameters you think are accurate,
make a test shot and then correct the exposure until you get the
good one. It's free! You can do it even without shooting, using the
preview histogram option.
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Ok thanks I' ve got it, I even have a light meter, but to be honest, I dont want to fiddle around with an extra thing - I could rather easily do without AutoFocus - I dont like its noise, and I rather dislike the hunting of certain lenses, but I want to shoot with internal light metering :-) Too lazy probably. So I'd better get the AF lenses.

Thanks again, teacher (my collegue)

Bernie
 
Dioni, what a photo! That is a real beauty: the lighting is so soft, direction is perfect and I love the catchlight (and all that doesn't include the wonderful expression on his face). An excellent conversion to B&W, and all on ISO 1600!

One of the best I've seen here (and I've seen a lot :-)

Cheers!

Charles
Dioni said:
I agree with Anthony here. Those extreme zooms could be worth for
travelling light, but not for portraiture work.

Of the lenses he recomends I would suggest the Sigma 70-200 f2.8
(sample bellow, 200mm, 1/30s f5.6, from a monopod, ISO 1600.
Converted to B&W in PS). I've also heard that the Nikkor Micro 60
does a good job on portraits.



Best,
Dioni
You don't take a photograph, you make it (Ansel Adams)
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Dioni,

I love this portrait. I tried to find your email here but it's not posted. If you ever come back to this post, please email me to discuss this image.

Shan (aka Photoshop Mama)
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Dioni said:
I agree with Anthony here. Those extreme zooms could be worth for
travelling light, but not for portraiture work.

Of the lenses he recomends I would suggest the Sigma 70-200 f2.8
(sample bellow, 200mm, 1/30s f5.6, from a monopod, ISO 1600.
Converted to B&W in PS). I've also heard that the Nikkor Micro 60
does a good job on portraits.



Best,
Dioni
You don't take a photograph, you make it (Ansel Adams)
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Lina,

I'm thrilled with my Nikon 85mm 1.8. It is very sharp, very fast so you can dissolve backgrounds, and now, with the x 1.5 factor it crops beautifully to head and shoulders...i always wanted the effects of that focal length but the tighter crop that a slightly longer lens would give.

Flick.
Lina said:
Can some one recomend me a good portrait lens that would work great
with my Fuji S2 camera.

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Lina
http://www.lasting-memories.us
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