A 50mm gives you the 85mm needed to get portraits with less or no
distortion, and still possible to work in not so big studio.

A 85mm gives 145mm what is great for your eye-closeups from Lynn!

I have them both on the F1.8 (85mm) Nikon and F1.7 (50mm) on the Sony
A100 body’s.

Tip: Nice to use in the evening at home when there’s only some light
putten to get a cosy atmosphere, they autofocus always on F 1.8 and
effectively blur disturbing livingroom-backgrounds.

The F 1.4’s or F1.2 i would not advice because of very small DOF !
Cost a lot more too, instead go to ASA 400 or 640-800, for all prints
suitable BTW. (yes, also A3 !)

Let’s not forget that an A3 you hang on the wall and you watch it
from a distance of 3-4 meters.(as ment to be!!!)

Anekdote: in the year 2002 when i worked as a prof. for magazines,
i did all fotoshooting with 2 and 3.3Mp compact camera’s, all A4
size printed glamourreportages!

I only resizeded to approx. 200 DPI and that’s all.

Tip2all: stop to look at images on your screens, print a few A3’s,
frame them and hang them in your house, ohh’s and aahh’s guaranteed!

Ok ok, last tips then otherwise it might become boring :

Stop shoot in RAW,try JPG and get your shots good rightaway, saves a
lot of time to spend with friends or family !

Forget zoomlenses, take a 50mm and use your feet instead.

Done by millions of photographers for 30 years and look please at
there results !

Take black tape and cover your screen on the back of your camera.

After a few weeks every amateur become a pro !!!!!

After 1 month bring your card rightaway to a printshop, don’t look
at the images in the computer first.

Think what you see and only then press the shutter.

Put some trust in these hints, just give it a try and enjoy.

Have a nice day !

Greetings,

Robert

Nice images and indeed lively, a fresh way of portraiting IMHO.

One remark i like to make about the lens you use many times as your
favorite, the 28mm.
It change many times the shape of the face to much, a balloon effect.

You will get really more pleasing results by using 50 or 85mm.

Maybe it’s not 4 nothing that the 85mm is called a portraitlens ?

Hope 2 see more of your work (maybe using my suggestion?)

Greetings 2 all, Robert