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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 505156" data-attributes="member: 13090">I didn't mean to imply it's physically impossible to get close enough to your subject to duplicate that shot using a 35mm or 50mm lens. You'll be three feet from your subject and you'll have all sorts of facial distortion to deal with, lose the compression you'd get with a zoom lens and what not but yes, it IS possible to do. My overarching points were/are that I'd bet you my next paycheck that shot WASN'T taken with a 35mm or 50mm lens and if you asked the photographer why not the answer would be along the lines of, "Because that's too short a focal length"; and two, that the preferred lens for that type of portraiture is something like a 70-200mm. .....</blockquote>