Comments on: Helpful Portrait Photography Tips

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:27:48 +0000

I wanted to comment also on this: “junk all the so-called “composition rules”; so the Rules of Thirds is the first one to go. Why? Because sometimes a face dead-center, full-frame is more powerful than anything else or if the face is at the edge of the frame (most of it being truncated) can also be just as powerful in its own way.”

“Sometimes” it is, and most of the time it is not. Breaking the rules is an advanced method best left to after you understand well whey the rules work. Amateurs are already ready to “break the rules” because they think they have something the rest of us don’t–the eye, a unique “unschooled” approach, or a disdain for intellectual achievement. This mostly spells crappy images with the picture taker believing he or she has created something worthy of display in the The Museum of Modern Art, if it weren’t for those idiot touchy-feely types denying their talent.

By: vijendra rathore

vijendra rathore — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:51:48 +0000

i am just on my initial stage to learn and i am having nikon d90 please help me to learn

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:33:58 +0000

To Joey,
i take also with my 105mm sigma portrais, but (in my case) I´ve to go very far away, because with the f/t sensor it is like a 210mm at a 35mm film.
or another, funny, solution is the old fisheye. if you use it right, there will be some very nice portrais.

to carlita: I prefere fix lenses, without zoom. it´s a little bit oldfashion, bit i think, that the quality is better at a fix lens. It can be, that some highquality zoom lenses achiev the same quality, but i dont know.

PS: thanks for the tipps…
Ju

By: Carlita

Carlita — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:50:12 +0000

I’ve been told recently a zoom lens and keeping it on 105mm. yet to try.