Adorama TV presents You keep shooting with Brian Peters in One of the goals with every photograph should be that she created composition that is without Distraction shooting portraits is one of the greater difficulties particularly when you're shooting as I find myself here Just on a simple city street a lot of stuff going on outside of the area of the portrait that you're shooting And one of the cleanest ways to make this composition much more appealing is to utilize a large piece of colored fabric Hi, I'm Brian Peterson and you're watching Adorama TV and the author of understanding exposure and Brian Peterson's field guide to Understanding photography. I'm here with two of my children I've got my son Justin in the back there covered in fabric and I've got his sister Sophie here as our model tonight And I'm going to simply utilize that fabric and the help of Justin to make what will become a very Clean background for this portrait of Sophie. It's a simple idea, but to make it work This is what needs to happen. You're gonna use a telephoto lens I've got 200 millimeter on my 70 to 300 NICOR lens in addition the distance that Justin will be from Sophie in the background With a two to 300 millimeter lens you want his distance to be at about 15 to 20 feet to create an out of focus frame in that background Now I'm just getting out of frame, but an out of focus to create an out of focus tone in the background In addition to maintain the out of focus tone in the background I'm going to utilize aperture choices of five six possibly a four and Because of the overcast lighting that I'm shooting under here We can easily shoot this in aperture priority. So let's take a look and see how this unfolds Justin go ahead and spread that sheet and Spread it wide Spreading wide Kate Rosie Take a look Right here, and here we go One two three now one of the things I also say and you probably familiar with this But we just shoot a nice horizontal portrait there When's the best time to shoot a vertical right after the horizontal so let's do it and take a look Side by side you get the horizontal you got the vertical and most of all you've got a very clean Just non-destracting background all brought to you by the likes of family and a large piece of fabric until next time this is Brian saying you keep shooting This episode is brought to you by Adorama TV Visit the Adorama Learning Center where you'll find photography tips and techniques Links to the gear used in this episode and related videos for all the latest photography video and computer gear Visit Adorama.com and the next time you're in New York City visit our store located on 18th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue