Lens for Portrait photography
Your Portrait images work best, if you were offenblendig shot:
- Ideally, use a fixed focal length of 50mm (e.g. Canon 550D/600D). In the case of a full-frame camera (e.g. Canon 6D) should be your focal length 85mm, respectively. Both lenses come very close to the human eye and therefore appear to be very natural.
- You can also, for example, the Kit lens of Canon use (18-55mm). This has the perfect Look, but for your simple Work completely.
- How to use the lenses the Best use, you can in our article "the Perfect portrait photo shoot – best tips" to read.
Portrait: Fixed Focal Length
Lenses for landscapes
In landscape photography, try to choose a large image area should be.
- This is especially an ultra-wide angle lens. Your image is sharp and has no distortion, but you can photograph a large area.
- If you wish to withdraw your image from the crowd, you can use a Fish-Eye lens. Similar to the ultra-wide-angle lens it has a low focal length. However, it has strong distortion, so that your image looks different.
- Tip: read our landscape photography article.
An Ultra Wide Angle Recording
Event photos - so you can make the best picture
The Event photography is a special theme for yourself. In order to achieve the optimal image, not only is your lens is vital. This should, however, be especially sensitive to light and flexible.
- A fixed focal length is a bit unwieldy, since you can't set the Image in the headset depending on the situation, however, it has a high aperture and a cool Look.
- You should use as a beginner, rather a reasonable Zoom lens. You can choose the image area optimally and with a low shutter speed to use.
- Especially in the case of event images in Clubs and at night is a powerful eTTL flash needed.
Taking pictures at dusk and night
In dark environments it is to scan difficult your subject perfectly. You need to implement a variety of Equipment to your image.
- A particularly fast lens is half the battle. The more light you can capture in your lens, the better the success of your images.
- Make sure that image stabilizer is integrated, because you often need to extend the belichtu ngstzeit. A tripod helps to avoid camera shake.
- Tip: take pictures at night succeed particularly well with our tips about Photographing at night.
Photos at night
Lenses for Street, sports and distance-shots
In all three areas, you can use similar lenses. They are not always in perfect distance to the subject and must be able to operate in the short-term.
- A telephoto lens lets you close to people zoom in, but it requires a good image stabilizer. In addition, we recommend a one-leg-stand.
- For Street photography is the approved method fixed focal length is suitable for further recordings.
- For Macro images you need a Macro lens or a Zoom lens with a small distance for a sharp image. Be sure to have a tripod with.
Street-Recording
Conclusion: These lenses you need
For each image there is a different, optimal lens. Think in advance whether your image will be the costs. A genuine all-rounder, however, for example, the 50mm lens from Nikon or Canon. You get a cheap lens with a strong open aperture, and a cool Look.
Very creative images you can capture with the so-called Lense-babies. However, you need a bit of experience. To your lenses the case of bad weather, you should the following tips in mind.
