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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

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looks like he likes speed so that's a great start!

Ha, yes. Always racing— birds, cars, dogs, me, whatever. A beep beep and he takes off. Keeps me in shape I guess. Scary sometimes because he likes to look at his damn feet when he runs lol.
 

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My trusty Buco J24L - apologies for the once again dreadful picture quality - one day I will work out how you guys get such good selfies!
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I'm not a professional photographer though. I'm an amateur who cares a lot about gear... so it's a relevant question to me.

Also, your analogy doesn't really work IMO. If I was an aspiring chef, I would ask a lot of questions about what another chef did to make a great meal if I had the opportunity.

My favorite phrase is something along the lines of "How do you know which photographers are the amateurs at an expo? The ones looking at the cameras. The pros are looking at lighting." I'm an amateur and am fine with that.

As @Joshua Holland mentioned, the type of camera used (35mm, apsc, etc) and the lens does matter in terms of the effect/framing of the photo. For example, this is relevant to me because I do not own a 50mm lens and I really like how these photos look.

You also are not aware of the fact that I know the OP and we talk on IG often.

One final important note- if you have to preface a comment with "no rudeness intended" then the comment is rude.

Yeah, Knakorn killed it with those two pics, as does @JCSD (who is a professional) with his. One thing I learned from these two fine gentlemen is to use fast primes, keep them open for a nice background blur. So your question was quite valid and Knakorn's answer very informative. PS - I am now shopping for a cheap fast 50mm for my Nikon - I want to up my game!
 

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Yeah, Knakorn killed it with those two pics, as does @JCSD (who is a professional) with his. One thing I learned from these two fine gentlemen is to use fast primes, keep them open for a nice background blur. So your question was quite valid and Knakorn's answer very informative. PS - I am now shopping for a cheap fast 50mm for my Nikon - I want to up my game!

Yeah @Knakorn Piulueangsawat and @JCSD do a great job. I'm always impressed with JCSD's photos. My current set up is a 35 1.4 85 1.4 and 135 1.8 and I thought Knakorn's photos looked different than mine in terms of compression. I love my 135, but there isn't always enough room to get the right shot with it.
 

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Yeah @Knakorn Piulueangsawat and @JCSD do a great job. I'm always impressed with JCSD's photos. My current set up is a 35 1.4 85 1.4 and 135 1.8 and I thought Knakorn's photos looked different than mine in terms of compression. I love my 135, but there isn't always enough room to get the right shot with it.
File compression or shallower depth of field? If the latter, Knakorn positioned the camera close to himself, which gives super-shallow depth of field. I just got a 1.4 fifty for my Nikon. This forum has a way to pull money out of my pocket in more ways than one, lol.
 

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File compression or shallower depth of field? If the latter, Knakorn positioned the camera close to himself, which gives super-shallow depth of field. I just got a 1.4 fifty for my Nikon. This forum has a way to pull money out of my pocket in more ways than one, lol.
No I'm talking about compression of the scene. The further away you are physically from the subject, the flatter the person looks and the more the background is pulled forward.

With a 135mm lens, the person or subject will be more "compressed" and the background will be pulled further forward than if you took the same frame with a 50 or 35mm lens. For example, peoples noses generally look longer and features get more exaggerated with a 50 or 35 than with a 135 or 200mm.

I may be explaining something you already know, but I want to make it clear that I'm not referring to depth of field or file compression.
 

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Finally having the carpet in two of my bedrooms removed. I had to move a bunch of stuff into my boys playroom, including these…

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You have mentioned some remorse over having passed on some jackets I came to own, I have the same feeling when I see the Collar on that Sears jacket. maybe I'm wrong, I have yet to get a Hercules jacket with the original collar. I suppose I created a new goal by that statement!

Nice Pile
 
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You have mentioned some remorse over having passed on some jackets I came to own, I have the same feeling when I see the Collar on that Sears jacket. maybe I'm wrong, I have yet to get a Hercules jacket with the original collar. I suppose I created a new goal by that statement!

Nice Pile

Thanks. Yes, the collar is original. I’ll have to check, but it’s possible it will fit on my other Sears jackets. I very much like the blonde. I also like the gray collars the department store jackets commonly had.
 
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Yeah @Knakorn Piulueangsawat and @JCSD do a great job. I'm always impressed with JCSD's photos. My current set up is a 35 1.4 85 1.4 and 135 1.8 and I thought Knakorn's photos looked different than mine in terms of compression. I love my 135, but there isn't always enough room to get the right shot with it.
You might like a 105mm. Nikon makes a beautiful one 105mm AF DC f2.0, but Canon also makes one.
 

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