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Exploring camera positions and portraiture

Exploring camera positions and portraiture

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Exploring camera positions and portraiture

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- Got one more portrait tip for you here and this one may be kind of the most critical of all. If you've ever had your own picture taken and thought, "Well, that doesn't look like me" or "That's not very flattering", this might be the reason why you had that reaction. I've got a zoom lens on this camera, probably just like the one you have on your camera. This was actually the kit lens that came with this camera. It's a very nice lens; it's very typical of the focal length range that you'll have on a typical starter lens. Now remember when I say focaling, I'm talking about the length of the lens. As the lens gets longer, I zoom in, and things far away get larger. As I zoom out, my field of view gets much wider. So, I can frame the same shot of Steven a lot of different ways. So I'm going to show you two of them right now. I'm going to zoom all the way out to 24 millimeters because I'm standing really close to him, and if I want to frame up a nice head and shoulders portrait, I have to…

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