Technique Tips: Using a portrait lens

Simple techniques can give you a variety of effects with a portrait lens.

• Use the widest apertures for the softest, most romantic effects. These are most often used for pictures that glamorize woman, but they do not have to be limited to that.

• Emphasize wide aperture effect by including bright highlights in the background – their light will be speard and softened along with the subject image.

• Use smaller apertures for greater clarity of detail. This kind of sharper rendition is usually preferred for portraits of men.

• Background details will also be clearer at smaller apertures; make sure they are appropriate to the subject.

• Do not limit this kind of lens to making portraits. Use its range of effects with all kinds of single subjects; flowers, jewelry, sunsets, and many others.

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