Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/26

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Subject: [Leica] Focus on the glasses? Or the eyeballs?
From: KCassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)
Date: Tue Jul 26 06:22:06 2005

Someone rightly pointed out that in my recent portrait of george crumb

http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/paw/2005/31/2.jpg

I focused on the eyeglass frames, rather than the eyeballs -- and this is
something I've always done thinking that if the eyeglass frames are in
focus, it gives us the illusion that the FACE is in focus in a way that
sharp eyeballs and blurry glasses frames doesn't. is there real conventional
wisdom on this? What do the real photographers do?

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