Hey guys, newfag here. Can you guys share some tips on how to take 85mm portrait photos like a professional? I don't have a camera though. Unless, you guys count smartphone as camera.
>>4522963>newfag thinks the focal length makes photos profesional lookingAnon I'm not even sure where to start with this bass ackwards thinking. Anything within in the 80-200mm range can give you bokeh-filled cummy yummy dreamy memey results with varying levels of perspective distortion.
>>4522963in real life majority of gains come from light, camera angle, wardrobe and backdrop. practice each of those one at a time to see how they change the effect.
>>4522979Hi, I fixed your shitty outdated image format into a modern one that is actually useful and can be scrubbed through. Kindly delete your animated gif immediately.
>>4522963First step is understanding what focal length does, and that's mostly giving you a certain framing at a certain subject distance, which will impact how the subject appears relative to the background. Picrel has some examples of framing with different focal lengths (and thus different subject distances). I like 85mm for 1/2 body to head and shoulders verticals, and head an shoulders horizontals. In your case with a phone, you should opt to stand farther away and zoom in. For most of the actual "look" that you're probably after, it's just lighting + processing. Your example reminds me a bit ofBenoit Paillehttps://www.behance.net/gallery/2345212/Stranger-Projectand Andre Josselinhttps://www.behance.net/gallery/53001729/With-Charleen-in-Barcelonahttps://www.behance.net/gallery/72390397/Caro-Lossberg-in-New-York-CityAlthough both of them mostly just use a 35mm lens. You could get Benoit's exact setup down below for under $800 probably, and maybe like $1k for a comparable Andre setup. Then just learn basic processing.Going back to your example, we can tell she's positioned in front of a very large light, like a window. We can see it in her eyes, and look at how soft the shadows are on the cheek. Then typical faux film processing like lifting the blacks, and applying a grain effect.
