Levi

This is my first time using a new camera, and I'm transitioning from a

digital point-and-shoot to a used canon 35mm (EOS-1), and so I would

really appreciate your input.

I would crop out everything except Levi to create parallelism, with him hiding from the camera and the camera hiding from him.  best, j

You're right, but I was mostly wanting to see what the camera and lens did with the blur of the table. 

I also like the blurs on the table from the reflection of his face and also the window (and I think the effect is somewhat lost with the crop).

Is the graininess something that is more dependent on the film one is using, or the lens, or the camera settings? 

I'll attach a cropped version to this message.

you could extend up to give the head space, and extend down to let the elbow finish, but there isn't much on the table or the ceiling to blur, so it's pretty uniform.  The face reflection is also a stretch.  you need a shinier table!

grain is strictly a function of the film.  what film was it?  best, j

thanks. And no, I wasn't saying there is a reflection of his face, but instead the blur. There's something I like about how it plays against the vignette-ing. Maybe I'm talking nonsense. 

but pretty subtle.  it's great to be entranced by such things.  j