What kind of lens is best for street photography?

Street shooting is the most common thing in magazines. How were those exquisite photos taken? Moreover, street shooting has some very important points. The street is our most important place to live. Rich scenes, no equipment restrictions. If you want to make your own style in the shooting of street works, the focal stage is a point you have to pay attention to. Let's get to know each other.

Generally speaking, we all think that 35mm or 50mm is the most suitable focal length for street shooting, because it is consistent with our human perspective and basically what you see is what you get, but sometimes we can also use telephoto to highlight the subject.

In today's article, I will talk about their respective characteristics from three focus parts to see which style is more suitable for you. First, 35mm, or

28mm, the gap between them is not very big for most people, so I put them together. Wide angle is generally the main focal length of shooting streets, such as the classic street camera GR.

28mm, and the equivalent focal length of most mobile phones is also 28 mm, so we should be familiar with the field of vision of 28 mm.

This focal length is not only suitable for shooting streets, but also very effective when shooting landscape photography or architectural photography, because it can capture more scenes to express the situation on the spot, unlike the telephoto end, which cannot be extended because of the focal length limitation. I think the biggest advantage of using this focus segment for street photography is that it forces us to get closer. To get a complete portrait, we must be as close as possible to the subject, otherwise the subject will only become an inconspicuous dot in the picture.

In addition, the advantage of wide-angle end is that it can create a deep depth of field, so that the background is not easy to blur. Different from portrait photography, a shallow depth of field is deliberately created to highlight the subject, but it is 35mm or 28 mm.

Even under the premise of opening a large aperture, it can bring a relatively wide depth of field to record the background and substitute more stories for the shooting theme, which is one of the reasons why many street photographers choose this focal section.

50mm is often used as a standard lens. In the film age, the sleeves of many cameras are 50mm, which makes this focal segment one of the most widely used focal segments. The first 50 mm

It can bring us a field of vision similar to our human eyes, and the image obtained by this focal segment will not appear obvious distortion, unlike a 28mm lens, which will appear obvious distortion if the lens quality is not high.

50 mm compared with 35 mm or 28 mm

The lens can achieve a larger aperture, which also brings convenience for shooting at night, but similarly, a relatively long focal length and a larger aperture will inevitably bring a shallower depth of field. Although shallow depth of field cannot bring the background into the story, it can blur the background and highlight the subject. How to use it depends on your shooting needs.

Because 50 mm is relative to 28 mm,

It's a long time, so you don't need to get too close to the subject. It's easy for us to show our faces when we get too close, which will be embarrassing for cheeky students who have just started to contact street shooting and haven't practiced the indestructible body. So 50 mm

Our lens can bring a relatively comfortable shooting distance and won't make us afraid to raise our camera to shoot those lovely strangers.

Let's talk about telephoto lenses, excluding the portrait head of 85 mm. What I want to talk about here is the lens of 135mm, or every family has a lens of105 mm.

Left and right focus parts. In fact, I don't like taking street shots with telephoto lenses, mainly because of the space compression and the depth of the scene caused by telephoto lenses, which excludes the scenes that street shots must be substituted, which is not conducive to expressing the actual situation of street shooting, and is often just to shoot a clear subject. But we can't blindly deny it. After all, everyone's shooting style is different, and telephoto lenses also have their own unique characteristics.

The first is distance. Using telephoto lens will make people who are new to street shooting shoot far away from the subject, so don't worry about being found too close. When the person you shoot doesn't realize your existence, you can often shoot the most real moment.

The space compression and shallow depth of field brought by telephoto lens can highlight the main body on the other hand, but the disadvantages are also obvious. If you don't substitute the background, the picture will lose its story, unless you just want to shoot those beautiful little girls in the street. The three focal segments have their own characteristics, and there is no rule as to which focal segment must be used for street shooting. Everything depends on your shooting theme and shooting style.