Shooting Family Portrait With 24/70 2.8

I have a Nikon D700 and a 24/70 2.8. What aperture would be best to get Brokaw and still have everyone in focus.

You can use a higher aperture, say f8 isn, but make sure they're far away from the background. And FYI... Bokeh. Brokaw used to do the nightly news, haha. He was a great man though.

Depends on all of the other variables

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Family portrait? Do EXACTLY the opposite I did here.........

To get the best bokeh, shoot with a large aperature (small number), large focal length (zoomed in), from close range (camera close to subject), and subject far from the background. Larger depth of field would happen by closing the aperature, but you would have to increase some of the other factors to keep the same bokeh in the background.

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galit713 said:

What aperture would be best to get Brokaw and still have everyone in focus.

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It is actually bokeh. Brokaw works for NBC news I think.

galit713 said:

I have a Nikon D700 and a 24/70 2.8. What aperture would be best to get Brokaw and still have everyone in focus.

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The best way would be to take a test shot and carefully look at it, make changes, another test, look again. Once the settings are to your liking, then you start the real photo session. A lot simpler with digital than it was with film. But we did have polaroids...

SteveL54 said:

Family portrait? Do EXACTLY the opposite I did here.........

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Lovely portrait. Did you all eat the same meal?

Family fish allergy? haha.