f/4 is usually too slow for portraits, so you should get 2.8 for dof control. i think IS is very important for portraits, if its shady and you dont want to shoot wide open and no IS, you should use at least 1/200th sec @200mm, that shutter speed with lets say f/8 and shady are would put your ISO way too high and you would get grainy shot. lets say you had to use 5000 ISO(way too grainy/low IQ with noise removal) for the shot, now with IS you could drop the shutter speed to 1/50th sec, and that would mean 1250 ISO(this would be acceptable with 5d mkII) in same light with same f-number.

this kind of basic things shouldnt be explained to guy who is getting 5d mkII. have you thought about getting good glass now and maybe 5d mkIII some day?

This post was edited by Antichrist- on Dec 22 2010 01:59pm

That's were flash comes in to help freeze the image

nice joke.

you're no fun.

This post was edited by Eek on Dec 22 2010 02:09pm

Just to gauge interest here, though I still might do it purely for SEO purposes, but how interested would people be in me writing a tutorial on building a portfolio website?

This post was edited by Veilside on Dec 22 2010 02:42pm

Highly interested. I'm just about ready to put one together.

I got a few more local workshops i'm getting ready to attend to get some more experience working with models and lights. Then put together a portfolio. Great timing lol.

I'll see what I can do then. Started writing a few tutorials on using a WordPress framework on my site, figure I might as well start putting together a series for a subject I'm interested in, thought it may be a bit too specific. I'll have to think some more about it.

Whatever it is that you write, I'm sure it'll benefit members here one way or another.

Well, hopefully

that´d be great.

and antichrist: I`m aware of such things but you´re talking pretty bad light conditions. I´ll be working under studio conditions and with portable studio lighting or at least some flashes when I shoot portraits. of course it would be the best bet to go for the 2.8 L IS USM, but I simply cannot afford that, so I´ll prolly go for the f4 L IS USM instead.