PhotographyTalk wrote: So most of you have either a 50mm f/1.8 or f/1.4 sitting in your camera bags some where. In this video Mark does an outdoor portrait shoot with a 50mm lens with flash and a very shallow depth of field. In this he covers in detail not only high speed flash sync, but also shooting in manual mode as well as manual focus. At the end you witness some pretty nice portrait shots b eing taken.
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