Macro lens: too sharp to take portraits?
With a macros lens (say 100mm),
I found it is too sharp when taking portraits.
Any flaw on the face of the model can be spotted.
How to avoid this situation?
Portrait photographers making a living out of his profession
find that softness sells pictures. On the other hand there
are thousands out there who do portraits for their
speciality and not for commercial purposes.
Your 100mm Macros will find its way into this arena.
However one should equip with the well rounded
knowledge of portraiture and enjoy the preferred choice.
Many photographers still preferred some characteristic
studies of a male or female subject with a naked lens
where every details of the face is shown. Wrinkles and
blemishes are important refinements in a portrait study.
In learning about portrait taking; some photographers
shared the following information with me:
:light:
Eight Ways to Softness in Portraiture
1. Use a lens full of fungus, the more fungus the softer
will be the end result.
2. Use commercial available soft filters of every type
and dare to experiment to discover new things for yourself.
3. Make your own soft filters so that no one can duplicate
or immitate your style. Get a few old UV filters, knock
off the glass and improvise your own softness by using
different materials.
4. Just put two piece of translucent of half an inch wide
across a UV and see what happens.
5. Get some haircream, even tigerbalm will do to act as
diffuser. Just put and smear them lightly and sparingly over
an old UV filter.
6. Use translucent celleophane paper and crumpled it up
and put over the UV filter to get a different sort of diffusion.
7. Get a pair of ladies stocking and pull over the filter
of your lens.
8. Get fine black soft clothing material, these are wonders
for creating soft effects. So what have you got next?
Think!
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Well, to be creative, you have to be a thinking photographer.
Fortunately our garden city is so beautiful that we cannot
bear not to be creative given the norm that we will aim to
be one of the most artistic city in this part of the world in
the future. When I don't know. ;p
It all depends on the people isn't it? :kiss: