Tagged with portraits - Personal View Talks

Next in my travel tutorial series - 5 Travel Portrait Tips

mojo43 — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 12:36:14 +0000

This is the next video in my travel tutorial series. Hopefully I explained everything correctly? This YT thing is still pretty new to me... Thanks!

Effect of Lens Focal Length on Portraits

stoney — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:35:22 +0000

Those links have examples showing effect of lens focal length on portraits from wide to tele angles.

http://www.lesjones.com/2011/06/15/effect-of-lens-focal-length-on-portraits/

http://annawu.com/blog/2011/09/focal-length-comparison/

http://www.mcpactions.com/blog/2010/07/21/the-ideal-focal-length-for-portraiture-a-photographers-experiment/

Portrait Photographs: a time and space

rNeil — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:58:48 +0000

Vitaliy has suggested perhaps a new discussion here in "skills" about portrait/people photography and the problems, ideas, and solutions that one finds. And as @maxotics noted in a recent post, it is so easy to shoot many images with a camera like a D600, in fact faster than we really can think about them. Most modern cameras are so quick and easy to make images with we all tend to shoot too much and think too little. My wife and I are as guilty of that at times as anyone. And we are both long-time professional portrait photographers: it's our only house-hold income. We've long known better but still ... these durn modern cameras!

Many images we as photographers take are just to create a very nice image. We're not thinking at the time we're using the camera about how that image will be treated in post-processing, then sized, framed/matted and placed in a particular space in a particular home with the planned intent to affect the emotions of the people living in that space. But if you stop to think about the aesthetics and emotional "content" of our living spaces, it can be very worthwhile to think ahead and create something ... satisfying. Worth viewing and worth living "around".

We have sought training and experience to do things differently: we work with our clients to plan out an image that will go in a specific place, and will have a specific emotional feel and bring that feel to that space. This is a process where size matters; composition matters; distance of viewers near/far matters; color schema matters; family inter-personal dynamics matters; space available matters. It's a much more complicated way to approach photographing your subjects. It's very much like trying to get all the emotional information from a movie scene into one still image placed in one space.

And when done really well, clients often shed tears when the image/s first go up into place. It can have that much effect on the feel of the room.

FS: Zeiss ZF 50mm F1.4 (Nikon Mount)

thougts2uk — Sun, 24 May 2015 23:25:47 +0000

Hi there,

I am selling my Zeiss ZF F1.4 50mm (Nikon Mount) lens. I will also throw in a free Nikon to MFT adapter. I used this lens on one of my short films and have had little use out of it since. Comes boxed as new with all the original documents.

It's in perfect working order with no scratches on the lens, clear glass with no fungus. It really is like brand new. I am selling as I have recently purchased a new complete lens set.

Looking for quick sale $350 USD including shipping.

Message me directly if interested. stuart.howe@gmail.com