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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 373524" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>I agree about the lighting, but more of note, for me at least, is the fact that the background is rather distracting because it is so sharp. Try using a longer focal length and a much wider aperture. The key to outdoor portraiture is to have the background just sharp enough to give a sense of "place" without competing with the subject for your attention. When possible outdoors, I use the longest lens I can given the room I have to work, from 180mm to 300mm and usually only 1 stop down to throw the background sufficiently out of focus but with still enough detail to maintain some idea of where the subject is. Here I used my 300mm f/2.8 AIS @ f/4:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/Victoriahat1200.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/Victoriahat1200.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STM, post: 373524, member: 12827"] I agree about the lighting, but more of note, for me at least, is the fact that the background is rather distracting because it is so sharp. Try using a longer focal length and a much wider aperture. The key to outdoor portraiture is to have the background just sharp enough to give a sense of "place" without competing with the subject for your attention. When possible outdoors, I use the longest lens I can given the room I have to work, from 180mm to 300mm and usually only 1 stop down to throw the background sufficiently out of focus but with still enough detail to maintain some idea of where the subject is. Here I used my 300mm f/2.8 AIS @ f/4: [URL="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/Victoriahat1200.jpg.html"][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/Victoriahat1200.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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