Originally Posted by
cauger61
Thnx a lot William!! I have tried with f/4.5 at 40mm and also with f/5.6 at 85mm; with your 1:4 ratio and obtained nicely blurry background portraits. However, one problem that I had to face for those indoor portraits was high ISO that I had to set for keeping shutter speed not below 1/30 for hand-held shots, with VR on. This happened inspite of having daylight, though diffused indoors. I attempted to shot with flash to keep the ISO upto 800, but that over-exposed the shots, with washed away highlights.