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Jonas M. Rogne

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:55 pm

Moderator Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 176 Location: Norway

Focal length (zoom)

If you are new to photography you probably think of zoom only as a tool to take photos when something is a too far away. However, the effect on your photos can be so much more.

I won't go into much detail, but if you are taking a portrait you would generally want to move back and zoom in to something like 50-100mm.

Here's an example showing the difference:

(click image for full view)

As shown, zooming in is a way to play it safe until you feel more confident to experiment with wider angles (less zoom).

The pictures were taken with my D70 while flashing into the ceiling. Notice that on the 70mm photo the lighting is also better, because on the 18mm photo i had to move so close that the flash caused problems.

One last thing to remember is that if you want to blur the foreground/background (out of focus) more zoom will enhance this as well.

Thanks to my cousin Espen for modeling Smile

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Jonas M. Rogne

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:34 pm

Moderator Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 176 Location: Norway

Tutorials by me (like this one) will no longer be posted or updated on this forum.
They will all be available from my Free Resources website from now on.

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