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I cropped it in tighter, so you could see the musician better.We examine environmental portrait lighting techniques from seven of the worlds best photographers. The final image (facing page) was actually taken at 16mm, so it was wider than what you see here. For an environmental portrait like this, it’s really important to see the environment, so I had to lower the shutter speed from my normal 1/125 of a second down to 1/60 of a second to let more of the room light into the shot. It was pretty dark down there (lit only by some dim factory lamps from above), so I had to crank up the ISO to 400. Is the term referring to a portrait camera orientation, or an environmental landscapeCAMERA SETTINGS: I’m using a super-wide-angle 16–35mm lens on a full-frame camera body with my f-stop at f/3.5.
That’s why I made sure I wasn’t up close when I was shooting this wide—look how far my subject is from me in the frame (and I already cropped it in a bit). (2) Know that shooting anyone up close with a wide-angle lens isn’t generally going to give you as flattering a look for your subject as zooming in tight with a long lens because you lose that flattering lens compression. If you get your subject close to the left or right edges of your frame, it will distort and stretch their body, generally making them look heavier, which will definitely not make you any friends. While I love how the wide-angle lens takes in a lot more of the environment, there are three things to remember: (1) Be careful about stretching your subject wide. For portraits where I want to see a lot of the surroundings like this, I generally use a wide-angle lens (usually either a 24–70mm or, in this case, my widest lens, a 16–35mm). The surroundings tell a story about the subject.
Here’s the final image.For more awesome Photo Recipes like this one, check out Scott Kelby’s The Digital Photography Book, Part 5: Photo Recipes. Lastly, I applied the Nik Color Efex Pro plug-in’s Tonal Contrast filter.
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