A good tutorial to show you how the focal length impact your portrait photography, with a 200mm lens you get excellent out-of-focus background and beautiful face and at 35mm you can see some significant wide angle distortion, for more details see the tutorial below
By Jay P. Morgan
The lens or focal length of the lens you choose has a profound impact on the image. It effects the perspective, background and features of the subject. In this lesson everyone should understand what the different focal lengths do to the human face and how they change the background. Why do you choose a 135 mm lens to shoot a head shot of a beautiful woman but use a 24mm to shoot a clown. Keeping the head the same size in the frame and changing the focal length of the lens, I will shoot a series of images that demonstrate how focal length effects the features of the human face and how it changes perspective which effects the background. We will go on to demonstrate a simple 2 light and one reflector fashion lighting set up. I learned a lot from this exercise and I hope you do to.
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Sony A57 is a successor of A55, It features 16.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor with more advance AF system, continuous shooting up to 12fps and standard ISO range 100-16000, the A57 is also capable for recording Full HD movies at 60fps frame rate .
Now lets’ talk about the lenses for your Sony A57 SLT Camera, the list of basic lenses requires for your Sony A57 camera are
kit lens (all rounder) – you get while you purchase the camera
Portrait Lens
Zoom Lens
Macro Lens
Portrait Lens for Sony A57
Sony 50mm F1.8 SAM DT – Buy from Amazon | B&H | Amazon UK
The 50mm F1.8 DT is the best and affordable lens available for Sony APS-C SLT camera, The 50mm Lens gives you excellent quality of images, color and contrast. The background blur or Bokeh quality of this lens is also very good.
Standard Zoom Lens for Sony A57
Sony 55-200 F4-5.6 SAM DT – Buy from Amazon | B&H | Amazon UK
The 50-200mm is the most affordable zoom lens by Sony features SAM – smooth AF motor for fast and quiet auto focusing and due to ED glass elements the CA (chromatic abberration) is very well controlled, being affordable the quality of the optics is superb, a highly recommended zoon lens for beginners.
Macro Lens for Sony A57 Sony 30mm DT F2.8 SAM Macro Lens – Buy from Amazon | B&H | Amazon UK
The best budget lens form Sony, It captures very sharp images even at F2.8 aperture, the lens CA is very well controlled and the lens will give you 1:1 subject to projection size ratio gives life-size image output.
one of my digiweddingphotos for once.
dusk. barcelona september 2009.
a lot of people talk about the differences between negative film and digital. i think really digital if anything works more like slide film. when it blows out highlights and comes out all smooth and glasslike its similar to some slides. when it does almost work it almost looks like a slide film. i still prefer slide film though, even if i can’t often get it to work very well for me still.
This photograph was taken tonight. I was so, so tired, and I had my last day of school today. But then I thought, what is the point of going to bed early if I only have one day left? So I sat on the beach alone. For 2 hours! And I enjoyed it so much. I have never seen anything so beautiful. I totally don`t regret being a little tired today, it was so worth it!
Sleeping giant Anindya Phani | via email submission | See Anindya Phani Gallery at BetterPhoto.com
Description: The photo was taken in Sundarban, India
Camera: Canon EOS 1000D
wah TAJMAHAL by Nakul Sharma via email submission | the beautiful wonder of the World… the beautiful architecture of the 17th century….
This photo taken in AGRA at TAJ MAHAL
camer & lens used : Canon 500D 18-135mm
shutter spped- 1/2000
f/8
ISO- 400
We may see New Canon G13 and a second mirrorless camera very soon (in August / Sep), CanonRumors [cr1] posted new products announcement rumors that may arrive soon, see details below
Starting from the popular Canon G13 Rumor: Canon G13 may arrive in August with new sensor + processor and a bright F1.9 Lens.
Canon EOS M (V2.0) : Yes, Canon may announce its second mirrorless camera during September for pro users, the specification is not available yet but we will update you as we get any info.
Lenses Rumors: A new wide angle zoom lens (EF) with EF 200-400 f/4L IS 1.4x lens expected to be announced officially very soon,
Printers: next week we may see new ImagePROGRAF printers .
Latest rumors suggest that Sony NEX 6 is coming on September 2012 (Photokina), the NEX 6 is a mini Version of current NEX 7 camera that comes at a affordable price OR you can also call it “Affordable NEX 7” , rumors suggest that the price is right in the middle between the NEX-5F (arriving at September) and the current NEX-7 (see NEX 7 at Amazon).
We have no info about the specification of NEX 6 yet, but will update you as soon as we get it.
Nikon D600 spotted by a reader of Dutch magazine Focus, the Nikon D600 featured in a Nikon SLR/iLC advertisement by an Italian dealer in Milan(o). Nikon D600 is rumored to be announced on Photokina 2012.
Nikon D600 Rumored Specification / almost confirmed
24.7MP full frame sensor
39 AF points (with an option of 11 AF points), 9 cross-type AF points AF face detection
ISO range: 100-6400 (with Lo-1 ISO 50 and Hi-2 ISO 25,600)
Full HD with 30p, 25p, 24p, HD with 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p (Video compression: H264/MPEG-4)
The Nikon D600 will have built-in AF motor, so AF and AF-S lenses will work with the Nikon D600
Exposure compensation: ±5 EV
AF face detection
Weight: 760g (850g with battery and memory cards)
3.2″ LCD with 921K dot with ambient sensor control
Medium format vs. full frame sensor,cameralabs tested both the camera, the winner is Phase One IQ160 but the result of Nikon D800 look very impressive, the Nikon D800 look just one step behind the Phase One IQ160 Monster Camera.
Camera / shot settings
Phase One with a Schneider LS 80mm f2.8 lens and Nikon D800 with a Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8, set to 70mm. Both bodies were then set to their base sensitivities of 50 ISO for the IQ160 and 100 ISO for the D800, and both lenses set to f8.
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A good tutorial to show you how the focal length impact your portrait photography, with a 200mm lens you get excellent out-of-focus background and beautiful face and at 35mm you can see some significant wide angle distortion, for more details see the tutorial below
