Taking Portrait photos with Wide Angle

As we know that, in photography, people usually take the Portrait pictures with tele angles to highlight the model by making the background blur. However, by using tele angles, the model is the dominant object in the frame, therefore the picture look narrow and the model look so lonely. For example:

In these pictures, even I gave space in front of the model to make the pictures become wider but the pictures are still look narrow and the models are still look "lonely".



Last weekend, I had a chance to take pictures for my new friend at RMIT Vietnam. I had a chance to experiment a new way to take portrait picture, I used Wide Angle! ( the following picture was taken with 17mm focal length, f2.8)


In this picture, the background is not blur so the there are much more detail about the environment therefore the picture look more interesting. Moreover, I can combine the low angle with the wide angle to make the model look much taller.

Experience:
- Don't combine high angle with wide angle in the portrait pictures, because that combination make the model look extremely short.
- Be careful in choosing the background. Because the background can not be blur much so we have to choose the background that is simple, united and not so colorful.

reference: http://tinhte.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87589