From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Taking a portrait that's tightly cropped or slightly obscured

Taking a portrait that's tightly cropped or slightly obscured

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Taking a portrait that's tightly cropped or slightly obscured

- We came out here to do some portraits. Now a lot of times when you think, oh, someone in the family wants a portrait, or I'm in a beautiful location, I'm gonna take a picture of somebody, you probably find some nice light, line up a good shot, pay a little bit of attention to your background, maybe think about depth of feel, and get something like this, a very nice portrait. Maybe you're feeling a little more daring, and you get a little closer. You understand that you don't have to show a person's whole face, and so maybe you get something like this. Also a nice portrait. But don't stop there. These are nice representational portraits, but it's really fascinating to start treating a portrait as a landscape. Do the same thing you would do in a landscape photo, and start working the landscape of your subject's face. I'm shooting right now with a Canon 100mm F/2.8 macro. That lets me get very, very close and crop really tight, and by really tight, I mean really tight. I'm gonna go…

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