Tutorial: How to Shoot Great Portraits with a 135mm Lens

The 135mm lens is a favorite of so many portrait photographers for great reasons. They compress your subject quite a bit, make everyone look fantastic, can be used for headshots and wider portraits, and blur the background into oblivion. While many photographers often reach for 85mm due to having more versatility, those who want even more compression go for 135mm lenses. This can all arguably be solved with a 70-200mm lens option of some sort, but what a 135mm prime lens does is so much better. ...