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It was a busy weekend again, with a wedding and a portrait session on Sunday.\u00a0 From the photo session on Sunday, here’s my favorite image of the day.\u00a0 I just love the way the background appears in this photograph.\u00a0 The bokeh of this lens is just wonderful.<\/p>\n
camera settings<\/em>:\u00a0 1\/250th @ f4 @ 400 ISO That image is typical of the separation you can create between your subject and the background, by zooming tighter.\u00a0 Here I was zoomed to 170mm .. for no real reason than I liked the perspective at this point.\u00a0 I had a comfortable working distance in that he could listen and see any instructions I gave him on how to pose … yet the perspective is nice and tight.<\/p>\n Lighting is exactly as described on this previous post on off-camera lighting<\/strong><\/a>, where I used the Q-flash’s wireless TTL system.\u00a0 The Q-flash was held to my left, and at about 45 degrees to the boy, and diffused with a softbox.<\/p>\n My choice of settings was for the background exposure, and I was at maximum sync speed for a very specific reason<\/a>.\u00a0 In using TTL flash, I was able to control my background exposure from my camera, by changing my aperture and ISO as needed .. while remaining at a high enough\u00a0shutter speed.<\/p>\n And that’s it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nThe camera used was the Nikon D3<\/a>, (B&H), and the lens was the 70-200mm f2.8 VR <\/a>, (B&H).
\nA telephoto zoom like this, or the Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS<\/a>, (B&H), is essential for this kind of portrait work.<\/p>\n
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