Megan with Paws and Claws photography. The next issue that I wanna talk to you about is
equipment. Almost any camera you have will be satisfactory, but I recommend, if possible, that
you use a camera on which you control the lenses, which is also known as the aperture, the
shutter speed and the focus. Possibly, you have an automatic camera that control some of these
functions for you. On many cameras, you can override the automatic features by shooting in the
manual mode. This will give you the greatest possible creative freedom. The camera that I prefer
to use is a digital single lens reflex, which is also known as a DSLR. This camera allows me to
change lenses when needed, some of the lenses are fix, these are called portrait lenses. For
example, this is a portrait lens that I have here, this are called fix focus lenses. They will give
you sharper image with less distortion. Whereas other lenses can be use in other situations where
there isn’t enough room to back off the subject. For instance, when you get in too close and
you're shooting in a downward motion toward your animal, you tend to get what I like to call the
big dog nose effect. This is where that the nose on your animal looks huge and the actual head on
your animal looks really small. Now automatic cameras try to get everything in focus, whereas
you may want the background to be out of focus. To blur the background on my camera, I set my
aperture at 5.6, if you want, if you wanna sharper background and you want the background to be
in focus, I use an aperture of F11.
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