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    Amateur Photographer of the Year

    Dec 28, 2017 4 minutes

    Round Eight Portraits

    MARCO TAGLIARINO from Italy is the winner of the final round of APOY 2017. Marco takes home a Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens worth ÂŁ1,199.99. The lens is popular with portrait photographers, partly owing to the attractive bokeh it delivers. The effect is so precise that you can focus on the pupil of the subject's eye, while blurring the eyelashes. The lens delivers ultra-high resolution, and is an excellent match for full-frame DSLRs offering 50-million-pixel or higher resolution.

    1 Marco Tagliarino Italy 50pts

    Canon EOS 6D, 16-35mm, 1/500sec at f/4, ISO 200

    Point of view is everything in this portrait. Using a 16-35mm lens at f/4 has allowed Marco to include plenty of the net, while simultaneously throwing any potentially distracting details out of focus. The main subject is wonderfully sharp and incredibly well balanced on the boat! A good portrait should tell us something about the individual featured, and by looking

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