Portraits with a 50mm lens.
Smile! Portrait photography is one of my joys! I could take a people photo anywhere and any time. You don't need fancy makeup, lighting, wardrobe or set. All you need is a camera and a person with spark to photograph. One of the things I love about 50mm lenses, especially…
Just returned from a long driving tour of the Western part of the United States. 4,600 miles of driving over two weeks and amazing sights everywhere. While much of my photography was landscape and scenery I did managed to do quite a bit of portrait work. Scenery is fun but…
What keeps you warm? Is it the quilt or the hug? Or maybe it is the feeling that you are loved? Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 | Canon 7d | 1/200 sec at f/6.3
Dark night and a wide open 50mm nifty fifty lens. Because of the awesome light gathering power I was able to take this at 1/60 sec shutter speed and freeze the motion. What more is there to say? Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 | Canon 7d | 1/60sec at f/1.8
Confirmed That moment when all the time and effort pays off. This is an old photo with my EF 50mm f/1.4 lens and a Canon 7d camera. I think it shows just how far imaging technology has come. The lens is wonderful and sharp and clear. The photo though has…
The Canon 50mm f/1.2 L lens is unique in the 50mm lens world. It is the only f/1.2 lens available from a significant manufacturer. Realatively big, expensive and not as sharp as the competition it would seem to have significant disadvantages. Depth of field and light gathering The picture above…
There are more ways to get to 50mm than to use a prime fixed focal length lens. Here is a 50mm picture taken with a 24-105 mm zoom lens. Maybe this is cheating as the zoom lens does not give all the best features of the 50mm prime, or any…
What happens when you get too close to the 50mm lens? Well, you get a horrendous distortion. Now, a distorted face on a little kid might be good for a laugh. But, for anyone who cares about their looks too close is a disaster. Why does this happen? The main…
