7.6 PORTRAITS WITH A LENS
 
 
 
 
 
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A zoom lens is an excellent portrait lens, especially for head-and-shoulders portraits. When zoomed in you can keep your distance and still fill the viewfinder frame with the subject. Keeping at a distance eliminates the exaggerated perspective caused by working very close to a subject with a shorter focal length lens. It also helps relax your subjects if they get uneasy, as many people do, when a camera comes close.

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A long lens lets you get portraits without crowding in on the subject. This let’s you capture more natural expressions.

 

chris.jpg (54337 bytes) Using a lens zoomed out to a wide angle and close to the subject adds some distortion to the portrait but it still works as an image. Perhaps not as flattering as it might be, the image is probably more interesting to others than to the subject.


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