Portraits with Zoom Lenses

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Portraits with Zoom Lenses
So you’re sitting there with your DSLR, and you have a zoom lens. You take a portrait picture, and you say to yourself “ewww.. that’s not what I saw behind the camera at all! Why does her face look so big?!?” Jean-Francois O’Kane from The Studio Coach walks us through the problems of distortion and how it appears on lenses with a portrait. Simply – shoot at the furthest focal length of your lens and you’ll be good. What happens if you don’t? Well, check out the video to see:

The Studio Coach – Portraits with Zoom Lenses