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Getting the right camera settings

Getting the right camera settings

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Getting the right camera settings

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- So we have our window light in the right position. We've got our model. She's down a little bit on the stool. We are good to go, but now, what do we put our camera and set it to in order to get the best possible headshot? So remember that we are using a zoom lens, and whenever you're using a zoom lens for this type of work, you want to make sure that you're zoomed to the most telephoto focal length that lens has. So for the 24 to 105, I make sure that I am zoomed in to 105. Now, the reason I do that is because of the distortion that you get when shooting faces at a wide focal length. So you can get a little bit of distortion. So we make sure that we are zoomed all the way in so that no distortion happens. The first thing that I want to do is take my aperture and make it as wide open as possible, and for this specific lens, that's going to be F4. I want to let as much light as possible in through this lens by opening up my aperture and making it as wide as possible and having as…

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