>>3898417>Dof is a tool, just like colour.>And when colour photography was new there was many people just like you that said it had no artistic merit, those people came off looking like fucking idiots.Dof is also most overused shit out there. Blowing you background into softness actively limits your creative options. There is good reason why many portrait photographers switch away from 135 and 85 to 50 and 35.
How many headshots with background out of focus can be taken?
>F1 on aps-c is f1.4 on FF; the difference is that you can actually get decent quality f1.4 lenses at every focal length from 24mm to 85mm cheaply. A half decent F1 or faster crop lens doesn't come in under $1k, rarely has autofocus (despite a razor thin dof), and is usually just some ling ling CCTV lens with a speedbooster element, hence why they look as shit as op's photo.Pic related is some random photo I took from flickr. Decently sharp for 250 USD. Even poor can take razor thin dof shoots, making it even more overdone.
