When taking portraits during travel, would it be bad to be using shallow DoF all the time? For example, I want to take a photo of a person in front of a famous tourist site but if I blur the background, what's the point of taking vacation photos???
Just got back from a trip where I shot all portraits at f/2.8 to f/4.0 and the subjects are complaining that the background is blurred and nobody can tell where they are?? Thanks.
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>>2737360
well you need to choose what you want your subject to be, whether you want a portrait or a landscape photo. Very difficult to have both in a good photo. Your friends just want a typical shitty holiday photo where they are tiny people at the bottom of the pic in typical shitty poses probably hugging each other with a shitty landmark in the back. That's why I don't take my DSLRs for holidays, take some instax or a 10 bucks film point and shoot instead, pic related
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>>2737360
>the subjects are complaining that the background is blurred and nobody can tell where they are
Well that should give you a clue. If you want to take a portrait in a certain environment it makes sense that the environment should be recognisable. Just because it is a portrait it doesn't mean that everything but the nose and eyes must be out of focus.
Employ a little common sense and remember that the importance of bokeh has been elevated by blogs in order to make you feel inadequate about your lens collection.
Shallow DoF is played out. Its all about f/36 these days.
>>2737434
>f/36
>he doesn't shoot f/64 through a lens of cut diamonds onto a silver gelatin plate blessed by the tears of Christ
why don't you go live in a garbage can
seriously, i like my mf @ f22
>>2737437
>he doesn't shoot f/64 through a lens of cut diamonds onto a silver gelatin plate blessed by the tears of Christ
If you're short on cash you could always just set the shutter speed to 3 years. That should get enough light in.
