A co-worker

I think some people freeze up for pictures, like me, and then there are some like this co-worker who just start giving different expressions and are very comfortable in front of the camera. As this co-worker was so comfortable, he unwittingly became my experiment subject unfortunately in my quest to take better photographs and learn how take a portrait. I suppose the real way to learn is to get a hard subject and try to get the pictures out of them.

Anyway, here are my crappy photos with a 50mm f1.8 canon lens. I don't know if it's good sharpness. I don't know if I shook. I don't know if I could get sharper with another lens or I don't know how to use this one. The squarish picture is cropped. The other two I realize I probably went in too close, which is not necessarily a bad habit to have to break I don't think

Much thanks to my co-worker for allowing me to post and take pictures of him. I decided his name remains annoymous for his protection. And no this is not some fetish. He's a really nice person but he's a newlywed