The lens needed for photography skills

The lens needed for photography skills

Guide: Every photographer has the lens he wants, and then waits for the moment when the shutter is pressed. The following are the photography skills I have compiled, and the lens you need. Welcome to read!

1. Do you want to film the whole scene?

When you shoot a landscape, a street, a trip or an environment, you may need to shoot the whole scene, not just close-ups of some parts. Generally speaking, you need a wide-angle lens at this time, which can help you show more scenes. Some photographers will use a wide-angle lens as a story lens, because the lens coverage can capture enough details to show your theme background, so as to better help your theme tell stories. This kind of shooting is usually applied to scene portraits or documentary photography.

However, if you need a shallow depth of field, most wide-angle lenses may not meet your requirements. We know that the depth of field is closely related to the focal length. The same aperture, the same subject size, the longer the focal length, the shallower the depth of field. Then at this time, it is necessary to shoot in a far place with a medium telephoto lens.

18mm lens can cover the whole scene.

This photo was taken with a focal length of 40 mm. Strictly speaking, it is not a full-width wide-angle focal length, but it is far enough away from the main body, and you can still capture the whole scene and all the characters, and clearly show the background.

Do you want to take a beautiful photo?

If the background is not your primary consideration, you only need the subject to be clear, and it is best to completely blur the background to create a hazy and illusory effect. Of course, a lens with a large aperture can easily achieve this effect, but a lens with a large aperture is usually more expensive. In fact, when we shoot with a medium telephoto lens, f/2.8 or even f/4 can create a shallow depth of field. You don't need to stick to a large aperture lens when the budget is insufficient. Sometimes you can also use the telephoto end of the zoom lens to meet the effect you want to shoot.

Of course, if shooting is your main job, you should buy an advanced large aperture lens.

85mm f/ 1.8 lens perfectly highlights the theme of the picture and makes the background all blurred.

3. How close can you get to your topic?

For wildlife photography or sports photography, telephoto lens is very important. In fact, some street photographers also like to shoot with telephoto lenses, which may capture people's subtle expressions on the premise of minimizing aggression, but there is a disadvantage here, that is, there is no background. You can only shoot the theme, but it is difficult to shoot the whole scene.

If there is an insurmountable obstacle between you and your subject, and you can only look at your subject from a distance, then you need a telephoto lens to make up for the defects caused by this distance.

You must use a telephoto lens for sports photography, because it is difficult for you to get close to the athletes who are moving, and of course it is the same for concerts and the like.

4. How much can you carry?

Although I know that every shot is charming, and I know that you want to cover all the focal segments as much as possible when you go out to shoot, for most girls, too many shots are absolutely beyond your body's capacity. With such a heavy bag on your back, where did you get the energy to take pictures?

This is even more important if you are a street photographer. You need to wander the streets for hours or more a day. The more you bring, the heavier and more difficult your bag will be.

According to your day's shooting content, choose the appropriate focal length, bring a hang-up head and at most one spare one, and then go out. Don't get lost in your closet, usefulness is the most important thing.

5. Is there no tripod to shoot in low light?

Not everyone has an iron fist, and the concept of safety shutter is still very important, because under the safety shutter, most people will inevitably have hand shaking, which will make the hard-earned photos paste. Fortunately, the ISO usable range of modern digital cameras has been greatly improved, and some cameras can even cope with tens of thousands of ISO easily, which is unimaginable in the film age.

And now the anti-shake technology of cameras and lenses has been improving, even the five-speed shutter can be improved. Oh, my god, this is the benefit of scientific and technological progress. Super aperture lens is very useful. Large aperture can increase the amount of light, but the disadvantage is that large aperture will bring shallow depth of field, and the price of large aperture will be scary.

Leica luminous lamp M 50mm f/0.95 is definitely a weak light killer, and the price is also a killer. It sells for more than $65,438+00,000 in Meiya.

In addition, wide-angle lenses are less prone to jitter than telephoto lenses, because the safety shutter is the reciprocal of the focal length, so the longer the focal length, the faster the safety shutter will be. The safety shutter of 35mm lens is 1/30s, and the safety shutter of 135mm lens is1125s. In normal use, most people use a shutter that is slower than this speed, which is easy to cause picture jitter. Of course, if you have a pair of diamond hands, you can ignore them

6. Can you take portraits?

What method do you want to use to record the model you want to shoot? One is to use a telephoto lens, which can provide a flatter perspective for your picture to get close to your model and help isolate the background of the model, which can be used when shooting local close-ups or busts.

One is shooting with a wide-angle end, which can provide a complete background and can be used when shooting panoramic or full-length portraits. However, don't let your wide-angle lens get too close to your model unless you want to distort her face and be killed by her.

Using 85mm telephoto lens can shoot the model's chest circumference well and effectively pull the model away from the background.

7. Do you really need expensive professional lenses?

Sometimes, we may need to shoot some special subjects, so we need to use some professional lenses, such as macro lens, fisheye lens, shift lens or Lensbaby. However, in most cases, it is these special lenses that we often just use once or twice and then shelve them.

Unless you are a professional photographer who specializes in shooting such subjects, there is absolutely no need to buy a lens that will only be used several times. Borrow one or rent one to shoot, which is much better than buying it without using it.

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