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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 724329" data-attributes="member: 16749">This was taken using my ancient (c. late 1960s to early 1970s) Vivitar ƒ/3.8 85-205mm zoom lens, which has a sort of distortion at larger aperture settings that I think tends to give a “dreamy” quality to the images.  I don't know what the aperture setting was for this particular shot, but during the session, I varied it from ƒ/3.8 down no further than ƒ/5.6.  I was approximately twenty feet away from the subject; centered on Allie's face, and zoomed out enough to take in all of her; so that the face would be sharp, and the rest of the image becoming softer as it went farther from her face.[ATTACH]329801[/ATTACH]</blockquote>