28 November 2007 Face of the Day
This is an interesting picture, aside from the fact that the girl is just darn adorable. This is one of the few pictures I took with my 135 DC where I made use of the DC feature to the fullest. DC (Distortion Control) is a function on a couple Nikon portrait lenses that lets you control spherical aberration. I maxed it out for this photo, so that hazy look you see is an integral part of the photo itself, not something I did with Photoshop. In general this function doesn’t get used much because it tends to result in cheezy 70′s-looking images, but this is one instance where it worked out. Anyway, I sold the 135 to fund the ZF 100/2, which I’m happier with anyway. Still, once in a while I come across nice shots I took with the 135, and I remember it fondly, kind of like an old girlfriend. Then I think some more, and I realize it seems better in retrospect than it did at the time, which, come to think about it, is also true of some old girlfriends.
[I noticed that by chance I've now had three posts with cute little girls. I'll fill out the rest of the week with old men to balance things out.]