Five suggestions for beginners to use 50mm fixed focus lens

Lead: When scholars tried to shoot with a fixed-focus lens, but didn't know how to start, many photographers often suggested that you start with a 50mm fixed-focus lens. After all, 50mm is the standard basic focal length, and the price of fixed-focus lens is relatively acceptable for beginners. After starting with a 50mm fixed-focus lens, how can we make it fully play its role?

Beginners generally start with APS-C monocular camera and set zoom lens. Kit lens is so fun that most people want to try to shoot with a fixed-focus lens. The original 50mm fixed-focus lens is the most acceptable in price. With APS-C monocular camera, it provides an equivalent focal length of 75-80mm, and often has a large aperture, which is very suitable for portrait creation. Advanced to the fixed-focus lens shooting stage, some shooting habits need to be revised in order to give full play to the charming effect of the fixed-focus lens.

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Don't fall into the trap of shallow depth of field

The reason why many people choose DSLR or micro-camera as the first camera is that it is easier to take photos with clear foreground and blurred background besides the large photosensitive element. It is true that the hazy effect of shallow depth of field is beautiful, but if you blindly pursue such a photographic effect, you will soon find that almost all your photos are the same and have no characteristics.

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Create with a flash

Compared with the package zoom lens, the 50mm standard fixed-focus lens has more powerful shooting power, and can even produce the effect comparable to the high-end camera lens. For example, when shooting with a flash, a sharper and clearer image can be obtained due to the specular highlight effect. For beginners, clever use of specular highlights to create, so that the details of the picture are more clearly presented, you can make high-resolution works, and even see the capillary holes of the human body. In addition to the flash, the shed lamp can also shoot good results.

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Large aperture does not mean major.

Many 50mm fixed-focus lenses on the market have large apertures, and it is often easier to shoot shallow depth of field under large apertures. However, I just want to remind you not to shoot works with shallow depth of field, but to shoot sharp and clear pictures with flash. Now you can try to reduce the lens aperture to F4.0 and F5.6, and get rid of the limitation of large aperture creation. Some professional photographers like to use aperture and depth of field as the stems of photography creation, but unless there is that exposure value, it is of little significance.

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Learn to choose the focus of transformation

"Focus first, then composition" is a kind of focusing method that many photographers are familiar with. Some photographers also like to focus on the center and then composition. However, this focusing method will inevitably lead to out-of-focus after composition. It is better to try composition first and then choose the focusing method to shoot. In this way, when you practice the above three suggestions, you can use the 50mm standard fixed-focus lens to shoot amazing works more smoothly.

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Say goodbye to all automatic modes

After listening to these suggestions that can make the standard fixed-focus lens fully display its characteristics, I think everyone will automatically choose manual M mode, right? By adjusting the aperture shutter, brightness and other settings, you can experience the fun of operating the camera more deeply. Of course, in order to master M mode and understand the effects of underexposure, normal exposure and overexposure, basic exposure knowledge is necessary. At the same time, it can also improve the control of the flash and the ability to select the manual focus point, so that you are no longer in the stage of blindly "aiming at the target and pressing the shutter", but will carefully consider the shooting of each picture.