I love to shoot even wider. My favorite lens is a 28mm f1.8 g lens. I love shooting it on location to either include more of the location or to play with its distortion to elongate the models height or elongate a particular part of their body. It’s super fun to play with.
Yes!! We love to see a good self challenge! I primarily shoot on a 35mm f1.4 for all of my fashion and portrait work. Maybe I'll step out of my comfort zone and try shooting with an 85mm instead! Gorgeous shots and super inspiring as always
Interesting. I too grabbed a 35mm 1.4 (a couple of years ago now actually) and have only used it a couple of times. My go to is a 24-70 f/2.8. You have inspired me to give the 35 an outing. Great vid. Thank you.
algorithm shenanigans - Lindsay I love your videos and realized recently RU-vid stopped notifying me even though I am signed up for all notifications and did not change my settings. I almost always watch your videos immediately or save to watch later, whereas other channels I almost never watch, still always notify me. I guess I’ll try culling my channels. Love learning from you so much, and love your work, keep up the great videos!!
I love these shots! Very cool. I need to use my 35mm more often. Also, I feel bad for that couple on the bench at 4:34, who were blinded by the reflector. lol
Chelsea Northrup has made the extremely valid point that wider angles for portraits are becoming more and more relevant and on trend, because they get something closer to what people are used to looking at in their selfies and other phone pictures. A 35 is much closer perspective to what people are comfortable with seeing in phone pictures of themselves. To us photographers, WE may often hate what phones do to faces, but even if something more telephoto would be more pleasing, people are more familiar with that wider angle distortion than they are with tons of compression. I'll always love the compression of a 70-200, but I do think it's DEFINITELY times-appropriate to start using wider angles some!
I mean, we like the wider angle when its from a high angle a lot of times because it makes our eyes big, hides double chins, and makes the midsection look smaller. so its totally relevant! well said!
Awesome….as always!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻💯 thank you Lindsay! Will be shooting with back sun light this Thursday - thx, yet again, for your fantastic inspiration! You never disappoint- my fav YT channel! 👏🏻👏🏻💯🙌🏻 Denise xx
Great reminders, especially shooting from a low angle and using the subject to block distractions. I use a Tamron SP 35mm f/1.4 (boat anchor) on an R5, and a 35mm f/2 Summicron-M ASPH (feather-weight but MF) on a Leica M10, primarily for travel but also for dog portraits and events. The Tamron SP 35/1.4 is the sharpest 35/1.4 ever tested by Roger Cicala at lensrentals.com, and renders similarly to Leica ASPH lenses, a look I really like. It's also heavy at 1.8 lbs. The M10 camera and 35/2 lens together weigh about 2 pounds. So if I have a slow-moving or stationary subject, I'll use the M10 and 35/2.
I have sigma art 35mm, and use it with R5 sometimes, not very often, my go to is rf24-70 very practical zoom lens, bit i will give 35 another chance :)
I wrote my Son about this tutorial and actually sent the video to him _ I was hoping it would influence his way of approaching how to use a 35mm lens _ i know this tutorial will effect how to approach several things in my natural light outdoor photo projects, those color choices are so nice
Inspiring! My 35mm sits around also - need to dust that thing off. I noticed that you typically use the silver side of the reflector - is that because the sun was setting and it wasn't too harsh for the model? If the sun is higher and I try silver it just becomes a squint-fest.
I'm considering to get myself a 35mm for my R but I am not sure if that's a more of an outdoor fashion shoot lens and if I should stick to my EF 24-105mm L lens with the adapter as I mainly do studio work using apertures between f5.6 and f11.
The 35mm is the best portrait lens, for everything that’s not a headshot. And when you improve your composition and posing you’ll end up using wide lenses more than telephoto. In Medium Format 6x7 the 65mm is the best lens. And 645 the 55mm.
Love my Tamron SP 35 1.4 for portrait work, followed by the SP 85 1.8 and the sigma art 50 1.4 on the R5. Distortion on the 35 is next to nothing as well which is really surprised by, like you I've found the eye tracking with the 35 not as effective in the R5.
With any wider lens there will be distortion (due to perspective) but you have to use it carefully. If I don't put limbs or sides of face too close to the edges, its fine. In fact, putting her head closer to the camera makes her eyes/head look larger-- you just have to decide if it goes to 'bobble' head and back up if required.
