Bokeh and the 50mm lens
One of my favorite lenses to work with creatively is a 50mm. With the image above, I’m using a Nikon 50mm f/1.4 which creates wonderful circles, or bokeh in the out of focus points of light. A tip to using a 50mm lens is to get very close to your subject, and let the background fall into a soft blur. The farther away you are from the subject, the more likely that everything in the composition is in sharp focus, so get close! Using a wide aperture allows you to selectively focus on the subject, and paints the background in a soft romantic way using color and light, creating a beautiful story-telling image. Have fun shooting! ~ Deb
Good tip and great image Deb.
Great to hear from you John, and thank you for your wonderful comment!
Nice image Deb and thanks for the info.
Another gear question: I just picked up a full-frame camera and am thinking about getting a circular fisheye lens. Since my backup body is the smaller sensor (1.6X crop factor), would you expect a difference in the fisheye image/effect when shooting the same subject with a full-frame sensor versus one with the smaller sensor?
Hi Gary, Congrats on your new full frame camera! A circular fisheye should work just fine with that camera. However, on a smaller sensor format camera if I remember correctly -the images are not circular – the top and bottom of the circle is cropped off leaving round ends, rather strange. I would keep your circular fisheye for your full frame camera and use a fisheye (rectangular) designed to work with a smaller sensor size. Nikon would be 10.5. Hope that helps!