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Top portrait lens

Started Jan 5, 2017 | Polls thread
OP diness Veteran Member • Posts: 3,758
Re: I thought it was a bad question, too
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BAK wrote:

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

Then don't.   There is no requirement to respond to every thread.   If I were doing it again, I would rephrase the question, but oh well, it is what it is I suppose.  Thanks for the thoughts!

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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