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What FL would you choose for outdoor family portraits?

Started Nov 24, 2015 | Polls thread
Andy Blanchard Senior Member • Posts: 1,349
Re: I'd probably start by thinking about how I would like the shot to look.

BAK wrote:

I'd probably start by thinking about how I would like the portrait to look.

This would be my first thought too. It's a family group, so the typical approach is to go for a tighter group to indicate "togetherness" which brings the required field of view down a bit, e.g. parents at the back, kids at the front. I like nice bokeh as well, so probably of the options given 85mm would probably be closest to the mark in practice, but depending on the background and available working distance I'd be considering anything from 50mm to 100mm+ as a starting point.

Andy

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