Full body shots

[zabulondesigns]

What is the best lens to use for them. This seems to be a weak area for me. I have been using my 75-300 because I like the depth of field that it gives me. I noticed that with this lens sometimes a hand or etc is cut out of the picture so I'm thinking its not wide enough? Any tips for taking full body shots will be much appreciated.

 

[shortpants]

Back away from your subject?

 

[DorkSterr]

A wide-angle. Tamron AF 10-24mm $579.79, Canon EF 17-40mm more expensive tho. You van use a telephoto but you'd have to get some distance and you will get very nice bokeh out of it.

For DX lens

17-85mm f4.5-5.6
10-22mm f3.5-4.5
18-135mm f3.5-5.6

 

[Aze]

A wide angle on a full body shot is going to create some rather unflattering pictures.

 

[kundalini]

Just to throw some focal lengths out there with a reasonable camera-to-subject distance.......

Cropped sensor: Full body-35mm > 3/4 shot-50mm > head & shoulders-85mm

FF sensor: Full body-50mm > 3/4 shot-85mm > head & shoulders-105mm

 

[patrick0294]

I have a tammy 17-50 and i can easily take a full body shot by putting my camera in a vertical position from about 5 feet away at 17mm's on a apc-s sensor (so multiplied by 1.6).