[Leica] Focus on the glasses? Or the eyeballs?

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

A question near and dear to my own heart as well.  My g'friend
wears glasses, and I always seem to wrestle with the issue when
composing a shot.

http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps/Lucy/Lucy_2/slides/Fire_Escape.html

Here's one with a 90/2.8.  The plane of focus seems to fall on the
eye glasses, but the circle of confusion seems to capture the eyes
adequately (an 8x10 looks reasonably "natural").

Scott

Kyle Cassidy wrote:

>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
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>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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