Time for a new lens?

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that I would upload some photographs of the cosplays that would have been the attraction of the recent hobby fest - so here they are. One thing I realized when I uploaded them was that the deep depth of field in most of the photographs (a.k.a. no bokeh, no life) and in the realm of photography, these would be considered amateurish and/or bad.

The reason why I did not notice this earlier when I took these photographs was because I was not really interested in portrait photography. Now that I know the concept of portrait photography and the awesome street portrait photographs on some blogs and flickr, my appreciation towards this certain set of skills and lens for this field of photography has increased greatly.

This has strengthen my decision to pick up an Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f1.8 lens as an alternative to the Canon 50mm lens that I have now. As much as I love the Canon 60D, I believe that the OMD E-M10 can be as good, perhaps better than it and the only way I can achieve this is by getting myself a prime lens for the Oly.

That said, the photographs below are taken using both the Canon 50mm lens and the M.Zuiko 14-42mm lens. I don't really like to talk about camera gears, but somehow these photographs led me in this writing direction. I wished I could have written more about the cosplayers below but I felt that writing about my lack of gears felt more appropriate. Oh, no.

Cameo appearance by Mr. GoPro.

Cameras: Canon 60D, Olympus OMD E-M10

Lens: Canon EF 50mm f1.8, M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm f3.5-5.6

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