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Canon EF-S 17-55mm VS Sigma 17-50mm VS Tamron 17-50mm?

Started Jan 7, 2013 | Discussions thread
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Re: Canon EF-S 17-55mm VS Sigma 17-50mm VS Tamron 17-50mm?

Keith Z Leonard wrote:

Portrait != thin DOF!!!! Vast majority of portraits taken at studios are shot stopped down. The 70-200 f2.8 is a great portrait lens, and it's f2.8. The ability to control the DOF is quite useful at times, but it isn't the be all/end all of a portrait. If you need to take a portrait of one person holding only while they are reasonably still with a bad background then f1.2 and f1.4 can be quite nice to have, otherwise it's not super useful. Low light and event photography benefit more from it than "portrait" photography. I don't think the 85 L wide open would be anyone's choice for a group portrait, for instance.

I've taken quite nice portraits with my Sigma 17-50, Sigma 50 f1.4, the 85 L, the 70-200 L, even the 100-400 L, believe it or not.

I don't know about that. Some photographers base their whole style around blown out backgrounds with beautiful bokeh.

I shoot primarily portraiture and I find being able to use fast primes and having the ability to really blow out the background if it doesn't add to my subject in any other way besides color helps a lot and is a desired look that I go after.

However, if something in the background adds to my subject I won't hesitate to close down the lens and leave it in focus as well.

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