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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 502680" data-attributes="member: 13090">Specifics will depend on how much working room I have, and what kind of portrait I'm doing but, generally speaking, for portraits on a DX body I like to be in the 85mm to 135mm range. Must have's, in my book, are f/2.8 or faster, great color, contrast and sharpness... But that goes for just about any lens.&nbsp; Remember as well getting nice, soft backgrounds is not only a function of a large-ish aperture, but also of distance between subject and background. When I'm shooting outdoors my rule of thumb is to have ten times as much distance between the subject and what is behind them, as there is between myself and the subject. For instance, if there is ten feet between the subject and myself, then I want to have 100 feet between the subject and the background. If you're shooting against a wall or a backdrop then this really doesn't matter of course. Other things that I think make for good portraits are keeping peoples heads in a &quot;clean space&quot;; this means keeping extraneous elements away from your subjects head. The other thing is a clean, simple background that consists of as few colors as possible......</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 502680, member: 13090"] Specifics will depend on how much working room I have, and what kind of portrait I'm doing but, generally speaking, for portraits on a DX body I like to be in the 85mm to 135mm range. Must have's, in my book, are f/2.8 or faster, great color, contrast and sharpness... But that goes for just about any lens. Remember as well getting nice, soft backgrounds is not only a function of a large-ish aperture, but also of distance between subject and background. When I'm shooting outdoors my rule of thumb is to have ten times as much distance between the subject and what is behind them, as there is between myself and the subject. For instance, if there is ten feet between the subject and myself, then I want to have 100 feet between the subject and the background. If you're shooting against a wall or a backdrop then this really doesn't matter of course. Other things that I think make for good portraits are keeping peoples heads in a "clean space"; this means keeping extraneous elements away from your subjects head. The other thing is a clean, simple background that consists of as few colors as possible. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"].....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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