Entering the Year of the Rat

Posted by Hoshisato (Ealing, United Kingdom) on 22 May 2008 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.

Very pretty girl in the Chinese New Year Parade in central London this year.
After previous disappointments with wide angled lenses at similar events, I had only taken my 70-200mm F/2.8 lens and this worked out very well by keeping the depth of field as tiny as possible and isolating the subject from the cluttered background. The later versions of the Pentax *ist DS firmware do include the continuous autofocus setting (AFC) which works wonders for an event like this.

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