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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 677946" data-attributes="member: 13090">Well I shoot portraits with a 70-200mm f/2.8 on a D750 with some regularity and I don't have trouble keeping the eye in focus when shooting at 70mm. I do that by putting a focus point directly on the face of the subject. If I'm shooting 70mm I need to be roughly ten feet from my subject to get the entire body in the frame and still have some &quot;breathing room&quot; at the top and bottom of the shot (assuming an average, adult male subject). So, if I use an aperture of f/2.8, shoot at 70mm and have a distance-to-subject of ten feet, that yields a depth of field of roughly twelve inches. That's plenty of DoF to keep the entire face in focus. At 70mm I would keep the shutter speed at 1/250 or faster (assuming I'm shooting hand-held) and I do NOT use VR, OS, what have you under typical portrait-shooting circumstances. I create bokeh in outdoor portraits, typically, by increasing subject-to-background distance and choosing as wide an aperture as possible that yields a depth of field sufficient to keep the entire face in focus. That's how I do it, it's certainly not the only way but it works for me.Based on your posts, I'm wondering if your lenses have front/back focus issues.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 677946, member: 13090"] Well I shoot portraits with a 70-200mm f/2.8 on a D750 with some regularity and I don't have trouble keeping the eye in focus when shooting at 70mm. I do that by putting a focus point directly on the face of the subject. If I'm shooting 70mm I need to be roughly ten feet from my subject to get the entire body in the frame and still have some "breathing room" at the top and bottom of the shot (assuming an average, adult male subject). So, if I use an aperture of f/2.8, shoot at 70mm and have a distance-to-subject of ten feet, that yields a depth of field of roughly twelve inches. That's plenty of DoF to keep the entire face in focus. At 70mm I would keep the shutter speed at 1/250 or faster (assuming I'm shooting hand-held) and I do NOT use VR, OS, what have you under typical portrait-shooting circumstances. I create bokeh in outdoor portraits, typically, by increasing subject-to-background distance and choosing as wide an aperture as possible that yields a depth of field sufficient to keep the entire face in focus. That's how I do it, it's certainly not the only way but it works for me. Based on your posts, I'm wondering if your lenses have front/back focus issues. [/QUOTE]

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