Tight, frame-filling portraits are great. We all do them. But next time you think about photographing a person, consider including the environment. This could be an indoor as well as an outdoor environment. This is more challenging because now you have two subjects: the person and the environment. If you use a wide angle lens, with the extensive depth of field you get the entire background will be sharp. In this portrait I set up in Mongolia, I had a model dressed in 13th century queen's attire. I found a beautiful landscape in which she posed for my photo tour group and I. i also did closeup face shots, of course, because the young woman was so exotic and beautiful. But in this style of picture, we get a sense of place. Notice also the light. The sun was just about to set, and the golden sidelighting added to the beauty of the image. My settings for this were 1/60th of a second, f/22 (to make sure I had complete depth of field), 320 ISO, and I used a 24-105mm lens set to 60mm.
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