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Portrait Photography
Here's a photo I took in Costa Rica. That's Diane Ewing, consummate
horsewoman and proprietress of Hacienda Barú. Her face would be completely
black if I hadn't used the built-in flash of my Canon EOS-5 body to fill in the
shadow under her hat. I hope you'll excuse any technical errors in the photo. I was
sitting on a horse myself. Canon 20-35/2.8L zoom lens. Fuji Sensia film.
Note that with environmental portaits, you don't necessarily use a "portraitlength"
lens. In fact, usually a wide angle lens of some kind is used, though
probably closer to 35mm than 20mm.
Here are some more examples of photos that might reasonably be called
environmental portraits:
Note: these are from my New York pages and Travels with Samantha.
Do you really need the wide aperture?
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