gesture of blessing

Hindu sadhus along the ghats on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi, India.

 

Technical info:

Canon FD 50mm f1.4

f/1.4

1/160 sec.

ISO 400

Manual focus

 

I was very happy to finally have the opportunity this past fall to do some street portraiture in India and Nepal, something I've been looking forward to doing for some time. This is the first of many shots from my travels that I'll be sharing over the coming weeks and months. I hope you enjoy them!

 

Prior to my departure, I contemplated buying the Sony 50mm f1.8 lens. However, I decided for this trip to go with the lenses I already owned for portraiture--the Sigma 60mm f2.8, Canon FD 50mm f1.4 and Nikkor 105mm f2.5 AI. Needless to say, I got lots of practice with Sony's incredible "focus peaking" for the manual focus lenses, while my subjects waited patiently! In spite of my relatively bad eyesight, focus peaking enabled me to dial in quite well on the eyes of my kind subjects.

 

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