Any particular lens, as I'm sure we all appreciate, will show its fullest 'character' when used at max. aperture and from time to time I've very much enjoyed shooting stuff shot in this manner as, I suspect, have we all. But here's the thing; famously 'Group f64' produced some astonishing, ground-breaking, images using minimum apertures but how many of the genuinely 'Great' photographs taken over the last 190 years have been captured when the lenses were set wide-open? Off-hand, so help me, I can't think of one.
I'd love to see some examples which show that the use of 'maximum aperture' was vital to the success of a world-famous image so, c'mon folks, let's see what we can find!
Post links so we can appreciate Max. Ap. to the Max!
Philip.