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Parents, what's your favourite and 3-5 most used lenses, and why?

Started Mar 11, 2017 | Discussions thread
TigTillinghast Contributing Member • Posts: 528
Re: Parents, what's your favourite and 3-5 most used lenses, and why?

In looking back at my family shots, I find an interesting trend, and this might go against your (really nice) set of f/4 zooms.

I find that I shoot very frequently with my own zooms, and that when I do so, I'm focusing on capturing the moment/action, and spending less time considering composition and the quality of the photo. There is a place for both, obviously. But with my family photos, I look back and see that the really striking ones were done with primes. Perhaps it was the need to have been more considered in composing the picture, moving to the right place at which to take the photo. Or perhaps it is because these primes take in 4 times as much light as my f/2.8 zooms, so they're getting a huge advantage on ISO.

The primes that have thrown my best family pictures are the Sigma 50 Art, Tamron 35 VC, Canon 100 L Macro.

Following those are the zooms, first among them the Sigma 18-35, as a huge number of my favorites were borne out of that lens. That said, I use it infrequently now because the 5D4 body has made my 7D2 very lonely. The Sigma is followed closely by the Canon 70-200 f/2.8 L II and the Tamron 15-30.

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