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    Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

    I did a little demo today of the effect of telephoto when taking a portrait. Generally, the further away you are, the better the person will be represented in the photograph. It is better to stand back and use a little zoom, which will flatten the features a bit and put them into a pleasant [...]

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