Beautiful portraits come in all varieties, but commonly they are shot with a shallow depth of field, that’s why many of the standard “portrait lenses” have fast maximum apertures, such as the recent Nikon 105mm f/1.4E. As professional photographer, educator and frequent contributor to Adorama TV Gavin Hoey says, there’s more to shallow depth of field portraits than shooting with a wide aperture. First, let's take a look at the gear Gavin uses for the shoot in the video below. His camera is an Olympus E-M1 Mark II and the lens of...
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