On 5/18/2013 12:51 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Walt for your explanation on use of the 77/1.8 or 85/1.4
unobtrusively from a distance, so that people don't get nervous or
fidgety when they see you photographing them.
The point would be to _avoid_ being seen so they are completely
natural and un-self-conscious.
But what I've found is that once people notice you shooting them from
a distance like that they are even less comfortable than if you were
closer. I think they tend to get creeped-out like they think you are
stalking them or something. So I've largely stopped doing the tele
thing.
I've had better results shooting quietly from closer with a shorter
FL. Then if they notice you, you smile and make eye contact or even
talk to them about what you're doing.
I usually wait until my subject is engaged in conversation with
someone or otherwise distracted when I go for candid portraits. I get
more relaxed looks and poses that way. I can sit in a gathering and
shoot from a short distance away and not be noticed. You just have to
be patient.
But I would definitely not use it in Studio Portrait shoots unless I
had quite a large studio.
I learned that lesson at a workshop. I tried to shoot models
full-length with the DA* 50-135. I had the thing at 50mm and I was
backed right out of the room through a doorway. The models had trouble
hearing my posing directions to them over the other chit-chat and the
radio.
Next shoot I used the DA* 16-50 and that made a huge difference for the better!
I remember the TLRs of yesteryears with the
75 or 80 mm lenses which were so popular in Studios for Portrait
shots.
My friend had the Samyang 85/1.4 for his Pentax K-r, but sold it as he
thought the focal length was not very useful for his photography. This
guy had (2) bodies and a lot of lenses.
--
-bmw
all of these focal lengths out of whack is due to aps-c cropping. Just
another good reason
for Pentax to put out a FF dslr body!
--
J.C. O'Connell
[email protected]
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