Stock Shot Project

For this shot, I wanted just the lips to be in focus and saturated, while everything else would be soft and bright.

Here is another version where I wanted both the eye and lips in focus -- everything else soft.  I used the 135mm Defocus Nikkor, an f/2 lens, wide open.  This lens has the softest bokeh of any lens I know, plus it is extremely sharp where it is focused.  The depth of field was so shallow that I had to put both the eye and lips on the same plane as the camera sensor to keep them in focus.  Camera was the Nikon D3s at ISO 200 with available window light.