Prime lenses
Prime examples
For other examples:
Alkan Hassan p. 21
Sebastião Salgado p. 45
Muzi Quawson p. 95
Shikhei Goh p. 98
Youngjun Koo’s website (koo.im) featuring his distinctively clean, fresh portraits of nattily dressed fashionistas on the street has become a Mecca among fashion blogs.
Koo uses a prime lens – one fixed at a specific focal length with no zoom capability. You might think that sounds limiting but primes carry real advantages.
Prime lenses offer wider maximum apertures, giving a much shallower depth of field.
Here, the shallow depth of field causes the subjects to really come forward against a soft background. Our attention is drawn to the people and their clothes instead of the urban busyness surrounding them. And what’s ...
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