It’s good to have a variety — the spice of life and photography. But when it comes to honing your knowledge and your skill within a specific focal length, the prime lens is your best training ground. Prime lenses have a fixed focal length lens. That means you’re locked into shooting...
Right now, social media is flooded with mediocre and subpar street photography. Just pointing your lens in the direction of a person on the street does not qualify as street photography. As in all photography, how you compose your image will make or break your photograph. X-T3 + XF56mm f...
Focal length is a property of the lens itself, not the camera. For example, a 50mm lens is a 50mm lens, regardless of whether on a full frame, cropped sensor, or medium format camera. However, the size of the sensor does play a role in how your photos will look at a particular f...
First things first, before any macro photography advice will be useful, you’ll need amacro lens. While most lenses shoot at a ratio of 1:2.8 and greater, macro lenses shoot at a 1:1 ratio and can focus only within the macro range of about 12 inches or fewer — essential for the su...
Focal length is a fundamental photography concept in optics and camera lenses. It is the distance from the optical center of a lens (point of sharpest focus) to the camera sensor or film. It is measured when the lens is focused at infinity and is usually expressed in millimeters (mm). Ho...
Standard Lens Techniques: Using the Point of View to Draw the Viewer In 50mm Portraits, My Style: Creating A Picture of a MemoryTelephotoRF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 200mm, f/8, 1/320 sec, ISO 100Telephoto lenses Prime lenses: Above 135mm (full-frame); above 85mm (APS-C) Zoom ...
is just the tip of the iceberg. While megapixels play a crucial role in determining image clarity, sharpness, print size, and cropping flexibility, they are not the sole factors that contribute to a camera's overall performance. The sensor size, lens quality, and aperture also significantly ...
That leads me to today : I have switched to a Nikon Z6 in late 2023, I have a kit that is mostly made of prime lenses except my 100-400 and a 12-24 DX zoom that I almost never use. I was thinking about adding a 70-200 or 80-200mm f/2.8 lens back into my kit, the thing...
If your photos from your camera look too fake, oversharpening is a prime culprit and can be corrected on a RAW file. Pro Tip In Lightroom Classic, you can get a jump start by applying the camera’s color profile to the RAW file automatically, so the ima...
Both zoom and prime lenses exhibit this behavior to varying degrees. One way to see this for yourself is to frame a scene and then change your lens’s focus from minimum to infinity and pay close attention to the edges of the frame — you may notice that the shot seems to “zoom” ev...