70-200 F2.8 F stop query on portraits

[pragmatist]

Any experienced togs know the shallowest depth of field i can get away with photographing 2 to 3 people and keeping them all sharp with my 70-200 F2.8
I'm thinking any less than 5.6 may be pushing it a bit.

 

[lee_barro]

How far apart are the people going to be and how far away from them are you going to be?

Lee

 

[tiler65]

it all depends on your focal distance. The further away, the more room you have to play with.

Have a play with this.

http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

 

[pragmatist]

Cheers guys. Gonna be around 14 feet away.

 

[tinite]

it all depends on your focal distance. The further away, the more room you have to play with.

Have a play with this.

http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

Great link!

 

[pragmatist]

Great link!

I 2nd that

 

[explora56]

Matt remember you can always bracket on your aperture on your camera you can bracket up to 7 shots I think so set it up bracket 7 shots and take a look nothing like seeing what actually happens as distinct from theory.

Bill

 

[pragmatist]

Yeah i thought about that, Cheers Bill

 

[Blundred77]

That is a great link

 

[Slimbert]

Why's this in the "Photo Sharing" section?!

 

[RobertP]

Why's this in the "Photo Sharing" section?!

it's not now

 

[Slimbert]

it's not now

Typical Mod, tidying things up, making sure everything's how it should be.....bloody facist!!

 

[bigrob]

Matt remember you can always bracket on your aperture on your camera you can bracket up to 7 shots I think so set it up bracket 7 shots and take a look nothing like seeing what actually happens as distinct from theory.

Bill

I never thought about that - cheers Bill.