Portraits with the 77mm Limited

I finally got to put this lens through its paces as a portrait lens yesterday at a (mostly ladies) garden party where I was asked to record the event and photo the guests, and boy did it deliver! This is not my normal milieu and I didn't want to intrude on everybody so a bit of a learning curve, and of course it wasn't like formal portraits so very difficult to control the settings and background. But compared to other lenses there was very little post processing involved other than controlling the highlights and shadows, it delivers gorgeous sharp colour straight out the camera. In fact for many it was a bit too sharp so to avoid some ladies' ire I had to soften slightly. Anyhow here is a handful of samples:

You've clearly nailed this shoot Rob - you've also summed the lens up accurately with your comment "it delivers gorgeous sharp colour straight out the camera" - the fact that it is such a high quality lens, in such a compact, beautifully engineered package makes it one of my long time favourites

Thanks LennyBloke, I just noticed no. 6 has odd shadows either side of her face which look deceivingly like clumsy post-processing, so I have had a go at removing them so I hope it looks better:

Like it. 2 is my favourite but it shows that a good photographer and quality kit will always shine.

Beautiful set - especially the musicians.

Some lovely natural poses