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What's a Typical “In-Focus” Rate for Portraits with an 85mm?
I have a lot of experience doing travel, landscape, product, ... in short, things that don't move much. Models? Not so much. I have a beautiful 85mm portrait lens for my Canon 1Ds Mk III DSLR, and at ...
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Will a lens with a low aperture value give me better portrait photos?
I want to take pictures of people from 5-20 feet away. I attend lots of group events and am free to walk around and snap photos.
I just purchased a Canon t3i and it comes with a 18-55mm kit lens. The ...
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How to blur the background using a super-zoom camera? [duplicate]
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Is it possible to take shallow depth of field photos with point-and-shoot cameras?
When I shoot portraits with my brother's Nikon D90, this is quite easy to fade out the ...
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What are the best settings for black and white film portrait photography?
trying to do some "daily shots" thing, and I was wondering what's the best setting for black and white portraits in areas that are well-lit and sometimes not (fastfoods, restaurants, malls)
I want to ...
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What aperture should I use to photograph people and why?
What f/# do you use to photograph people, and why? I know this varies from shot to shot.
Let's suppose that you are photographing either a single person or a couple, that it it outside on a somewhat ...
