hey guys newfag here can you guys share some tips

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Anon08/14/26, 09:48No.4522979

>newfag thinks the focal length makes photos profesional looking Anon I'm not even sure where to start with this bass ackwards thinking. Anything within in the 80-200mm range can give you bokeh-filled cummy yummy dreamy memey results with varying levels of perspective distortion.

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Anon08/14/26, 14:26No.4523027

in real life majority of gains come from light, camera angle, wardrobe and backdrop. practice each of those one at a time to see how they change the effect.

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Anon08/14/26, 16:40No.4523051

First step is understanding what focal length does, and that's mostly giving you a certain framing at a certain subject distance, which will impact how the subject appears relative to the background. Picrel has some examples of framing with different focal lengths (and thus different subject distances). I like 85mm for 1/2 body to head and shoulders verticals, and head an shoulders horizontals. In your case with a phone, you should opt to stand farther away and zoom in.For most of the actual "look" that you're probably after, it's just lighting + processing. Your example reminds me a bit of Benoit Paille https://www.behance.net/gallery/2345212/Stranger-Project and Andre Josselin https://www.behance.net/gallery/53001729/With-Charleen-in-Barcelona https://www.behance.net/gallery/72390397/Caro-Lossberg-in-New-York-City Although both of them mostly just use a 35mm lens. You could get Benoit's exact setup down below for under $800 probably, and maybe like $1k for a comparable Andre setup. Then just learn basic processing.Going back to your example, we can tell she's positioned in front of a very large light, like a window. We can see it in her eyes, and look at how soft the shadows are on the cheek. Then typical faux film processing like lifting the blacks, and applying a grain effect.

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