When you are shooting two subjects with a telephoto lens, they should usually both be sharp. Since telephotos have shallow depth of field, that means that the subjects should be equidistant to the camera. If one of them is even two or three inches closer to or further away from the camera than the other one, you may find that one of the subjects is tack sharp while the other one is almost sharp. This is not good. In this portrait of two little girls in Havana, Cuba, I asked them to sit such that both of their faces were the same distance to my lens. That made all the difference. I used a 100-400mm lens for this shot set to 330mm, and the settings were 1/250, f/5.6, 250 ISO.
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May 27, 2016, 6:01:49 AM
Vera McKenna - For me this is PICTURE PERFECT. Thank you For sharing and your teachings.
May 27, 2016, 5:57:31 AM
Jim - You're very welcome, Vera. Thank you for the compliment on the picture.