When photographing a model, why do photographers stay far away and use a huge lens rather than get closer?

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I realized that in behind the scenes videos, photographers outdoors seem very far away from their subject with a huge lens rather than being close up.

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Additionnally, long focal lenses tend to have shallow depth of field, i.e. distance where things are in focus. So you’d focus on model’s eyes, which is the most important, and blur more or less all the rest, including wrinkles, scars etc.

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