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Test drive with a new lens. Kate was kind enough to sit still and let me take a few photos.

Straight out of the camera

Above is my favorite of the bunch. Lighting is provide exclusively by our friend the sun. I do have one of my tri-grip reflectors against the wall to her left for some fill light, as you can see if you check the highlights in her eyes. The one thing I’ve noticed thus far is that I’ve got to be a lot more stable with the 85mm, medium-telephoto, focal length than I do when shooting my 50mm or 28mm primes. Throwing motion blur into the mix certainly kills any sharpness. I’ll keep messing with the lens, but I do like the perspective, and the additional standoff I get when doing headshots and other portraits.