What kind of camera lens is suitable for traveling portrait photography?

Portrait photography in travel photography is the primary shooting goal of many novice photographers. Because of different shooting scenes and shooting styles, novice photographers may not be able to distinguish which type of portrait photography and choose which type of lens, nor may they correctly show the beauty and story of portraits. Generally speaking, all kinds of lenses can be used for portrait photography, whether it is fixed focus lens, telephoto lens or camera lens, but how to choose the right lens? Let's have a look.

1. Type of camera used (frequency doubling, Quan Huafu)

No matter what kind of lens you decide to use in your trip, you need to consider what kind of image you want. For example, if you use a multiplier camera, the distance will increase when choosing a lens. For example, for a 50mm lens, the actual distance is 75mm, so the shooting distance will change. If you use a full-frame camera or a wide-angle lens, such as 24 mm, this may not be the ideal shooting distance.

2. Think about the type of photo you want (do you only pay attention to the theme of the photo, or the location or the story itself).

What do you want the final image to look like and what effect do you want to show in the photo? For example, what kind of tourist attractions appear in tourist portrait photography? Nature, city, restaurant, walking, choose which lens to use according to the effect of shooting theme. If you want to get a clear set of photos, you need to use a lens that makes the subject stand out in the background.

3. A large aperture helps to separate the subject from the background.

A large aperture will increase the layering of the image and help the theme stand out from the background. Because the focus of the subject is very clear, the points outside the focus will be blurred, and the large aperture will blur the background and highlight the subject.

For example, setting the aperture to f/8 can make the subject and background very clear, but the portrait may still appear to have no obvious separation from the background, but if the aperture is reduced to f/4,

This will help to clearly separate the portrait from the background, but it also depends on the shooting effect you want.

4. Select a single fixed lens (fixed focus lens) or zoom lens.

The advantage of using a fixed-focus lens is that it can provide beautiful, fast-focusing, clear and image-free high-quality images, but the price will be higher and the distance cannot be changed, which may not be suitable for shooting in some venues.

The advantages of using zoom lens are flexibility, convenient zoom and wide use, because zoom lens allows you to choose the focal length, which can meet your shooting needs and is cheaper than fixed focus lens.

5. Practicality and performance, which lens would you choose?

Select the lens suitable for the desired image. Because the purpose of shooting is different from the desired image, most photographers generally choose a lens that can be close to the subject. A telephoto lens can shoot very beautiful people, but a short lens is more convenient.

APS-C camera can choose 75mm, and full-frame camera can choose 105mm. In common travel photography, 50mm or 35mm is still a good choice. The lens you want to choose should be able to enlarge the aperture value and help highlight the theme without background.