Sorry for repeated subject, but i have just recieved a Canon 85mm 1.8 lens.

It is a nice weight, and feels very solid. I was suprised how fast shutterspeeds i could use at f/2.8 and below!


So here are a couple of pictures of Jess. I love the bokeh of this lens
Any tips and comments are welcome.

Cheers

Nice! I really like this one, with the bokeh

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp255/doylEOS/85mm/72ad1d17.jpg

just saw u got ur new lens as well nice!! What an improvment over the kit lens with the 1.8 apertures of our lens' we can shoot in the dark!

Yeah! A huge improvement, I am glad I bought it! lol^^

What was your dog doing in #2? lol looks like it was barking or something, cute fangs though ^^
I really like the nice background blur as well and I am definitely going to get one of those wide aperture lenses.

Jess emits a howling noise when she is happy.
Yep it is a super lens i can't belive the improvments over the kit.

ok stop with the nice pictures! pretty sure I'm going to have to buy a 50mm soon now

nice, the wide aperture lenses are really cool, in a normal lit room the 85 can get 1/60 (no blur) shots at 1.8. You could prob get 1/40 fine with the 50mm!

how close does this lens focus? When I do buy one I want to use it to take pictures of a flowers and such - would this lens do that well?

to fill the frame with a standard size flower you would have to do some cropping. You would want to buy a macro kit tube or somthing to help the 85 take close ups of flowers because its closest focus point is 0.85m. The 50mm 1.8 is 0.45m but im not sure which is best.