 Shannon M. Phillips |
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Mark Feldstein |
Well Shannon, since you mentioned the "f" word (film), first, let me say congratulations. Go with the 160 porta, shoot it at iso 100 to get better color saturation because it's color negative film. That means you're overexposing it by about 2/3 of a stop. The 400 may produce larger grain than you want at larger print sizes. Most of the time you'll want to avoid that. Based on your scene description, take along a fill-flash if you have one, set that at 1/2 the exposure your camera meter tells you to use, but make sure you use it at the proper synchronization speed for your camera. That's usually around 1/80th or 1/60th at a second. Ideally, you'll have a flash bracket or a stand to mount the flash on away from the camera to avoid having the light appear too harsh. 1/2 the exposure value you get, even 1/3 the exposure value you get with a meter, should give you pleasing results. That's especially true since color negative film has a pretty wide exposure latitude. Any f-stop you determine with a meter of some kind should be fine although the smaller the lens opening (the higher the f-number) the greater the depth of field you'll have. All that means is to blur the background out, using a smaller f-stop like f2.0, f4 or even f5.6.
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Mark Feldstein |
BTW, since you mentioned you're new at this, I highly recommend that you score a book called "National Geographic Field Guide" to Photography" by Peter Burian (wjo pops in here once in awhile, (or used to)and Bob Capito. It's a handy portable size pack of info, easy to understand. So simple even pros can understand it and find useful. M.
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Andrew D. Woodard |
is this the issue you are referring too? http://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Photography-Field-Guide/dp/079225676X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/002-4005173-8508032?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185321486&sr=8-2
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John P. Sandstedt |
With regard to the portraits you've shown above, take a tip from Robert Capa. "If your pictures are no damn good, you're too far away."
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Debby A. Tabb |
I Agree. Shannon, A Portrait captures the essance of a subject. A landscape may involve a subject human or animal and tell a story, But a Portrait is ment to capture the personallity or a moment of it in a subject. I do hope this helps, Debby
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Shannon M. Phillips |
Maybe I should have just said picture quality. I am only concerned about the enlargement abilities from the film type mentioned above. And anyway that the above images could have been improved.
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