Hi, thanks for the comments, and good suggestions wrt conversion to B&W!
The person in background could be more out of focus. It's a property of most nikkor (gasp! yes, this was shot using a 2.8/80-200 nikon zoom) lenses to have harsher rendering of boke. This usually shows in the specular highlights like the reflections from the glass of wine the man is holding. If I had used a Sonnar 2.8/180, the background would be very pleasantly out of focus (although even too much for my taste). I think myself that the shot is too tight, but that's problem with the long zoom on digital with 1.5x crop - I was used to get 80mm AOV now I get 120mm AOV on the same lens... but that may be personal preference. Gianfranco, thanks! WRT the foreground - in the other colour channels, there is tonality even in the highlights in the foreground. I find the blown highlights distracting there, that's why I asked. In the other channels, they don't form the specular highlight with pure white, but blend nicely from gray to ligher gray. I think I should get back to shooting film for such things ;-) Frantisek
