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Go-to lenses for event photography

Started 3 months ago | Questions thread
gsz Regular Member • Posts: 170
Re: Go-to lenses for event photography
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Sometimes I’m taking pictures during company events (10-80 people, meetings, receptions, small parties etc.) and the 35/1.4 and 56/1.2 combination (on X-T3) works well for me.

Yes, you will have to change lenses multiple times, but if you are not a pro but a participant who takes pictures (so there is “no pressure” to have picture of everyone/every moment) this could work very well (35/1.4 for larger groups, 56/1.2 for “candid” shots with small DOF etc.)

Indoors with low/tricky lighting I simply use manual mode, 1/125 sec,  mostly the largest aperture of the lens, auto ISO, shot in RAW, very careful with AF (mostly AF-C, sometimes eye detection, never focus lock+recompose)- yes, I need to spend time with postprocessing in C1Pro (what I really enjoy doing😀).

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