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Top portrait lens

Started Jan 5, 2017 | Polls thread
BAK Forum Pro • Posts: 26,019
I thought it was a bad question, too

Sorry, but photography's too hard, and time's too valuable, to spend much time on bad questions.

But, allowing for the range the question requires, pretty much the only answer for a serious professional photographer expected to shoot to the satisfaction of an unknown client, photographing an unknown subject, in an unknown location, for an unknown purpose, on a so-called full frame camera, is some 24 - 105 mm lens.

A good photographer could come back from almost any open-ended and vaguely specced assignment with a magazine cover, an over-fireplace 16x20, a LinkedIn profile shot, or a website portrait of an owner of a business that operates outdoors, with a 24-105.

And there could be just one head, at 105mm, or four standing people and enough of a 100 ft. yacht to be interesting and informative, at 24mm.

And if a photographer just wants to go out with a friend and mess around, the photographer could pick one lens each Saturday for three montns.

BAK

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