I'm not sure how to set up the camera settings for a portrait versus a full body render. For example what particular type of lens settings should I use when just focusing in on the face? If you could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it a lot. Enjoy the rest of the week.

James

Short answer is - around 100mm for a portrait and anything you like for full body.  

Anything with distance often benefits from a smaller focal length and to this end a lot of people, myself included, use 50mm or lower.  Using a 35mm focal length is great for adding drama and depth to an image but it looks horrible on a portrait.

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i use 60 for full body and 100+ for close up

I use 105mm for all of my cameras.

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Ahh, classic portrait focal length Acadia. That's good advice. :)

If you take a look around on the 'net you'll find heaps of info for 35mm photography showing what focal lengths are best for different scenes. This will most definately apply to Poser as well. Just be careful though because 'standard' focal lengths in 35mm are not the same as those in digital photography. For example a 50mm lens in 35mm photography is considered to be 1:1, ie what the human eye sees, but in digital photography unless the CCD sensor is 24mmx36mm (35mm film size) the image from a 50mm may look closer to what you would get from around an 80mm in 35mm photography.

Sorry about the technical description, I just thought it relevant. :)

 

I tend to use anything from 100-150mm in 'normal' portraits, but have gone as low as 25mm for some close-up fish-eye madness!

105mm seems to be the sweet spot, and is what I default to for setting up images.

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You're welcome Gini.  I'm glad it proved useful

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I thank you all for your input. Enjoy the rest of this week.

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The little tutorial was indeed helpful.  

Wonder why Poser has never included a variety of default
camera settings for portrait, landscape, etc?   They include 
a "fisheye" and "extreme fisheye",  but the rest are just different 
angles, which we don't really need any defaults to help with. 

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