Do you use a telephoto lens or a fixed-focus lens to shoot street scenes?

Street shooting, long zoom and fixed focus should be said to have their own advantages. Relatively speaking, I prefer zooming. In other words, so far, I dare not shoot people on the street with a 35-focus lens.

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First, zoom lenses are relatively more convenient. If the subject is a little closer, you can get a suitable composition by zooming quickly. This is nothing compared with fixed focus. Even if I barely took a picture, I had to cut the picture later, and the picture quality dropped badly.

Second, street shooters are mostly strangers. At the same time, we should consider not being discovered by the subject. In this respect, long zoom will definitely have an advantage. Some people say that telephoto is easy to attract the attention of people around you. My idea is that it is better for people around me to pay attention than for the embarrassment of the subject. In my experience, some focus heads are small and hidden, but when you stop and raise your arm, they will be more aggressive.

Of course, the focusing head also has many advantages. For example, a 35mm fixed-focus lens is closer to the human perspective; The reaction speed is faster in a suitable range; Better picture quality; Lightweight; Wait a minute. The use of telephoto lenses also has disadvantages, such as being bulky, slow in response, and easy to blur with telephoto.

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Street shooting is mainly about taking pictures of casual and natural pedestrians. Usually I use the 70-200 lens on the tripod, and it feels like waiting for the rabbit to set the position, haha. If you concentrate, it will be difficult to shoot, easy to be found, and cause unnecessary trouble.

Street shooting needs casual movements and casual expressions. This kind of non-posing is natural and gives people a vivid feeling, so many people will shoot works on this theme. There are many advantages to using a telephoto lens with a large aperture. First of all, it is more hidden. Secondly, it can blur passers-by and make the subject more prominent.

According to my experience, I try to use a long zoom lens and a large aperture when shooting in the street, so that the film will look much better and the picture will be purer. So the 70-200 lens became the head of the street.

Do you use a telephoto lens or a fixed-focus lens to shoot street scenes?

Street shooting is walking in the street, relaxing, recording life, recording wonderful, beautiful, and recording moments, instead of capturing the ugliness of others (except in special circumstances), exposing others' privacy, and not stealing others' business secrets. It's not for taking pictures for profit.

First, although the purpose of street shooting is fair and open. Under normal circumstances, it is based on the premise of not disturbing each other. Since you don't want to disturb each other and try not to disturb each other, it is better to "mask" when shooting, so the medium telephoto lens is more suitable.

Second, the objects of street shooting are almost random. It is impossible to arrange the settings in advance, where and how far it is, so the zoom lens is the first choice; If you use a fixed-focus lens, there will inevitably be embarrassment that you want to rely on but can't achieve it.

Third, the background of street shooting is often messy and complicated, and it is not easy to achieve the purpose of highlighting the subject. The way we can take is to use a larger aperture to blur the background properly, and to achieve this goal, it is often easy to use a large aperture of a medium telephoto lens.

Based on the above analysis, it is more appropriate to use a medium-long zoom lens in street shooting, such as 70-200/2.8.

When sweeping the street, I usually use a 35mm lens. I believe most people are familiar with this focal length, because the equivalent focal length of most mobile phones is 28mm, so everyone is familiar with this view.

First, this focal length is very effective when shooting landscapes or buildings, and it can shoot more scenes, but it will not produce obvious distortion like super wide angle. I don't know if anyone likes sweeping streets with 35mm as much as I do.

Secondly, this focus forces us to be closer to the subject, and it is easier and more suitable to shoot some humanities, but it is not suitable for street beauty. At this time, its advantages become disadvantages. Everyone was angry that a stranger shot another stranger at such close range.

I always thought it was best to use 85 lens to sweep the street, but I only tried 135art once and found that I couldn't go back. This lens is slightly shorter than Sigma's 85, but because of its smaller aperture, it is a little smaller in lens volume than 85. It's a little heavy, but the focal length of 135mm, combined with the large aperture of 1.8, has a strong blur effect, which is very gratifying.

The focusing speed is enough, and the maximum aperture is available, which is relatively heavy. But it's okay, it doesn't seem to last 12 hours. Since I am going out to take pictures, I don't feel tired when I am in a good mood. Why not take 70-200 pictures? Two reasons, one is too heavy, close to three pounds; Secondly, no.

Shooting portraits in the street is often a snap shot. People coming and going in the street will easily block the subject to be shot, so the large aperture and telephoto will blur unnecessary people and make the person I want to shoot more prominent.

I don't need to set the focus because I can't move easily. You can't run around the street with your camera. Zooming is much more comfortable. It's too easy to set up a telephoto gun and wait for the person to be photographed to appear.

Therefore, when shooting in the street, the biggest lens is a large aperture and a long zoom. If you use a fixed-focus lens, wait for the person being photographed to come and give you trouble. Although it will be fine to explain, it is always troublesome, isn't it?

Do you use a telephoto lens or a fixed-focus lens to shoot street scenes?

What kind of lens do you choose for street shooting? It depends on what you want to shoot.

Some people say that it is not just sweeping the street, how to subdivide it? Of course, street shooting can also be subdivided into human body shooting that reflects local conditions and customs in a larger scene, which we can understand as environmental portraits; You can also shoot portrait works with portraits as the main body in smaller scenes.

Generally speaking, joint capture pays attention to "firmness, accuracy and stability", because the gap between snapshots is fleeting, which requires not only the photographer to have extremely high shooting quality and experience, but also the equipment to respond quickly and the lens to focus accurately and quickly.

From the convenience of shooting, the zoom head is definitely more practical. However, in terms of focusing speed and film quality, the fixed focus lens is dominant.

Therefore, according to the different shooting themes, combined with practicality, I will take a 35mm head for humanistic street sweeping; I will sweep the street like a portrait with a 70-200mm zoom lens.

Why did you choose this?

A, humanities street cleaning with 35 mm ..

The focal length is perfect and the inclusion is appropriate. You can take a portrait when you enter, and you can take a small wide angle when you leave; Picture composition and redundant scenery have more room for later adjustment and cutting. Fast focusing and guaranteed film quality.

Second, the portrait sweeps the street with a 70-200mm zoom head.

The biggest problem that portrait grave sweeping is different from humanistic grave sweeping is portrait privacy and portrait right. There may be many characters in humanistic works, and most of the pictures are narrative, and the characters are not necessarily in the form of showing their faces, so they are highly private. This kind of shooting, with proper communication, will generally not cause the photographer's resistance and rejection.

But portraits are different from sweeping the street, and portraits are the focus of shooting. So when shooting, the farther away from the subject, the better. The snapshot at this time is a bit "sneak shot", which is actually indecent. So as a last resort, you must choose telephoto to shoot. If the telephoto lens is fixed, it is inconvenient to shoot; Give up a little quality and zoom will be much more convenient.

Tips: If the portrait sweeps the street, if the photographer finds it, he must smile and apologize; If the photographer asks to delete the film, he must apologize and cooperate.

I also take photos in the street after work, and most of them only take the lens of 85F 1.8, because this lens is fast in focus and suitable for snapshot.

Taking pictures in the street doesn't like taking too big a street. I can't appreciate the fun of photography because I am too ostentatious. I don't like taking 70-200 shots because they are too heavy.

Theoretically, 70-200 is the most suitable lens for street shooting, and the zoom lens composition is also more advantageous, which can draw people closer and blur the telephoto lens.

70-200 is a medium telephoto lens, and street shooting is definitely better than 85. If I shoot creation or go on location, I will definitely use 70-200. But you really don't need 70-200,85f1.8.

At present, I basically take street portraits with two lenses, one is an outdoor portrait of 85mm, the other is a portrait of 35mm, the other is a portrait of Sima and the other is a portrait of Canon. The two lenses are cost-effective and have good picture quality, and the most important lightness will not attract others' attention.

Sigma 35 mm is also very suitable for street shooting. The angle of view of 63 is stronger in practical application, which is equivalent to the angle of view of the eyes and has a stronger sense of bringing in.

Now I occasionally take street shots with a lens of 35, but I prefer the lens angle of 85F 1.8. Sometimes I use both lenses, and the two lenses are used alternately, which makes the composition angle richer.

I am not too keen on street shooting, but I have tried two extreme shots for street shooting.

First, 300mm f/2.8 lens.

This lens is very thick, but the focal length of 300mm can be captured from a long distance, which is convenient for capturing the picture you want. But the fly in the ointment is: "You look at the scenery on the bridge, and the people who look at the scenery look at you under the bridge ..."

Many times, I shoot others in the street, and the onlookers are also holding their mobile phones to shoot me ... The pressure in my heart is too great!

The following photo was taken by me at night with a 300mm lens. (At that time, the performance of mobile phone night shooting was not good, so I don't need to watch "Night Walking with a Gun" ...)

Secondly, as for the other lens, it is a rare Fu Lunda EF 20mm f/3.5SL II N, which is the only super wide-angle biscuit lens in the SLR system, and it is very small and exquisite.

This lens is a manual lens, but it is also convenient to narrow the aperture by "pan-focus shooting". Generally, I use f/5.6 aperture and focus scale to predict the distance, and the success rate of "blind sniper" is still quite high. But I really don't like this kind of theme, and I don't know the significance of shooting these strangers' scenes, so I won't shoot them in the future.

Let's start with the conclusion. Personal street shooting only has a fixed focus of 28 and 50. In practice, the basic 28 of humanistic street shooting is also used less.

The reasons are as follows.

First of all, street shooting needs small and light equipment. On the one hand, you have to walk all day with your equipment, on the other hand, you don't want others to notice you. So the size of the zoom lens is no longer suitable.

Secondly, the aperture of zoom lens is generally small (almost 2.8), so it is still not convenient to shoot night scenes.

Third, capture requires speed. The equipment is too big and the focal length is variable, which will seriously affect your speed. The most important thing is to realize what you want to shoot. If you use the fixed-focus lens for a long time, you will have a sense of framing. If you use a zoom lens for a year, you may not be able to tell the difference between 28-end and 50-end vision.

Fourth, street shooting often needs a wide-angle lens to capture enough picture elements. Wide-angle lens can make you closer to the subject and better observe the picture. Using telephoto is not street shooting, it's called sneak shots. That's what paparazzi do. Therefore, the scaling of 17-35 is not much different from that of 28 or 35.

Probably for these reasons. be as above

"Street shooting" (here refers to street shooting, not taking pictures in the street) is the basis of high-quality landscape photography and high-quality indoor lighting portrait photography (that is, the reason why the subject can integrate into the shooting emotion). This shooting process reflects whether the photographer is firm or not about the subject's emotions.

With the zoom lens "street shooting", this "firmness" will be weakened by "indecision" The zoom process is an "indecisive" process (street shooting is to capture the freshness of the event instantly), which will lead to "feeling lag" and weaken the shooting emotion. This is also the reason why many "landscape photography" and indoor portrait photos feel dull.

Therefore, using the fixed-focus lens to shoot "street shooting" is a training means for photographers to cultivate "firmness" in shooting.

As a cliche, because there was no zoom lens in the past, the "street shooting" taken by photographers at that time was very neat in behavior and expression, and there was no sloppy "lag".