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Use a 35mm lens for portrait shots

Apexeloptic2022-04-08T09:16:13+00:00
Hunting/Shooting Advice & Tips

In portrait photography, you can take portrait photos with any camera lens.  Each shot will give you a different result, masking your shot with information, tone, feel, etc.  To be perfect, you need to choose your lenses carefully, especially in portrait photography.  This tutorial focuses on how to take portraits with a 35mm lens.  

1. Can I shoot people with a 35mm lens?  

The 35mm lens allows you to capture many different types of camera lenses and angles.  It’s wide enough to capture background elements but close enough to take more intimate shots.  This question is often asked: Can I shoot people with a 35mm lens?  

portrait photography 

The answer is yes, 35mm is perfect for portrait shooting.  Conventional wisdom would have you believe that you need a 50 mm, 85 mm, 105 mm, 135 mm, or even 200 mm lens for stunning portraits.  While these lenses are great for portrait photography, the same is true for 35mm prime lenses.  

2. Benefits of 2.35mm lens for portrait shooting  

The Angle of view of 35mm is a small wide Angle, which brings the advantage that when shooting a portrait subject, you can keep a close distance from the subject, but the selected background into the mirror, and think about the composition elements that need to be added or marked.  

One of the main advantages of a 35mm lens is the ability to get more portrait shots.  The wider 35mm focal length allows you to get more out of the lens without having to move away from your subject.  

Another benefit of 35mm is that you can use it for other types of photography as well.  This focal length is good for general trip and travel lenses.  Many 35mm lenses on the market are also small and lightweight, making your camera combination unobtrusive.  

3. The problem of using a 35mm lens to take portraits  

35mm has many advantages, but you should also be aware of the disadvantages of using this focal length.  35mm is considered a wide-angle lens, which comes with normal wide-angle problems when shooting portraits.  For example, depending on how close you are to the model, you might get quite a bit of lens distortion.  If you stand too close, the lens will distort the subject’s face and distort the arms or legs near the edge of the frame.  It’s not a close-up, so you’ll need to crop the photo in post-production to get a closer composition.  

F1.4 35mm lenses also tend to be larger and heavier, so keep this in mind when buying a lens.  You can consider using F1.8 or F2.0 to save money and weight.  

portrait photography 

4. Why use a 35MM lens for portraits  

Whether it’s more basic aspheric glass or complex blue spectral refraction elements, you can be sure that most 35mm lenses are pretty good.  The width of 35 is not enough to cause huge problems in any particular aspect, but a good lens will do some correction to limit any aberrations.  

Almost every brand has a 35mm F /1.4 option, and every brand has an option around F /2.  With current sensor technology, you should be very happy with any of these options, and they can quickly achieve shallow depth-of-field, especially when you’re close to your subject.  

A Wide-Angle lens with a 35mm lens can easily breed distortion in your photos.  But you can deploy strategies to eliminate facial contortions and other possible problems.  For details, you should use a 35mm lens.  

In addition, you can capture a dramatic and artistic portrait of your subject by combining background elements, and you can easily fit more objects into your frame.  

Finally, be careful not to get too close to your subject, as a 35 mm lens makes the closest thing to the camera very large.  Instead, always try to shoot a portrait with a 35mm lens and place about half of the person’s body in the frame.  

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