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Interesting. Do you tend to crop portraits you take at 28mm?
by miseg 11y ago
Interesting. Do you tend to crop portraits you take at 28mm?
- alistairSH 11y agoI don't use a 28mm for portraits. And neither would most pros (I'm a hack). But, if you're carrying a fixed prime, your choices are crop, get close, or don't take the shot.
- aaronbrethorst 11y agoYou shouldn't take portraits with a 28mm lens, at least not if you can avoid it. It'll distort your subject's features, making their chin, or nose, or whatever look abnormally large. Better to use an 85mm lens if you can.
- foldr 11y agoIt will distort their features if you get in close. For the same distance from the subject, any focal length with give you the same amount of (perspective) distortion. So if you shoot from 10ft away and crop, you'll get the same results (modulo resolution) as you would have gotten if you'd shot from 10ft away with a longer focal length and filled the frame.
- aaronbrethorst 11y ago10 foot subject distance on a 28mm lens isn't much of a portrait. Unless you're doing an environmental portrait with an emphasis on the environment.
- foldr 11y agoWell, that's why I said "shoot from 10ft away and crop".
- aaronbrethorst 11y agoHow much resolution does your sensor offer?
- ska 11y agoUsing a long lens has the opposite effect, flattening features (which is why people us 85, 105, even 400!). But there is no "right" answer here, just what works and doesn't. I've seen examples of both from most least types.