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Photography Skills: What kind of focal length should I choose to shoot?

8mm: extremely exaggerated picture, unlimited use.

18- 16mm: cramped and cramped environment.

22mm-24mm: imprecise architectural panorama, or natural landscape (preciseness requires large frame and shifting lens to correct differences), urban buildings and a large number of people.

28mm: Wide scenery, crowded scenes and portraits with a sense of community.

35mm: general landscape, building or building interior, documentary portrait.

50mm: local scenery, full-length portrait, in fact, any scene and theme can be used.

60-65mm: small macro, suitable for shooting some cup-sized objects or rice cookers and other commodities. This focal length is suitable for buying macro lenses.

80 mm: bust, some close-ups, or highlighting someone in the scene.

100mm: Macro gold focal length, especially suitable for shooting macro subjects.

135mm: portrait focal length, suitable for portrait close-up. Those MMs on the Internet that are particularly beautiful with blurred background are all shot at this focal length (generally, an 85mm lens is placed on an ordinary APS SLR, and due to the conversion factor, the focal length of 135 can just be obtained).

200mm: portrait close-up, big head, long-distance shooting.

300mm: People in the distance want to take close-ups, birds in the distance, sports, and distant shots.

400 mm-600 mm: wild animals, football matches, etc.

1200mm: astrophotography, dangerous wildlife, large-scale stadium competition.