The best lens selection for portrait shooting

What kind of lens should I choose for portrait shooting? This is the most puzzling problem for many beginners of photography. If you don't pursue unconventional vision and just want to shoot beautiful portraits honestly, then you should choose a lens with a focal length of 80 ~ 100 mm. In fact, a telephoto lens with a length of 80 ~100 mm is generally called a portrait lens, which is also the favorite of most professional photographers to shoot portraits.

Why? Now let's talk about the reasons for choosing it.

1. accords with human normal vision.

The portrait taken by this focusing lens is basically the same as that seen by the normal naked eye, and it will neither be deformed like a wide-angle lens nor compressed like a telephoto lens.

2. The photographer keeps a harmonious distance from the subject.

This distance is just 3~4m away from the subject, and there is a gap between them, which avoids the discomfort brought to the model by the close-up lens and the lack of interaction between the model and the photographer caused by the long distance.

Among the lenses of the same class, the fixed focus lens is the best. If you will choose a fixed-focus lens as your sharp weapon to shoot portraits, then a lens with a focal length of 85mm or 100mm is your first choice, which only requires the photographer to make a composition before and after running, but I believe its imaging effect will make you feel that all this is worthwhile.

And if you like to snap shots and switch between big scenes and small scenes, then you should choose a lens with a long focal length. The longer the focal length, the greater the weight and the greater the physical strength. But remember, wide-angle and telephoto will surprise you, but at the same time it will also bring deformation. This is something you should be careful about.

In fact, this paper can only tell you what kind of lens to choose to get a standard professional portrait, but photography always needs creativity, and how many wonderful works are obtained by breaking the routine! So what kind of lens you choose ultimately depends on-what kind of lens do you like best?