What lens is better for street sweeping

The "street sweeping" method of photography has now become more popular in the photography circle, which roughly means that people take the camera to the street to shoot, the object of photography can be the people on the street, can also be the street scene, in the street shopping to capture the details of the dynamics of the street and the moment.

Compared with traditional documentary photography, "street sweeping" is not so serious a form of photography. Documentary photography is to reflect the relationship between human beings and human beings, human beings and nature by capturing the essence of the reality of the human condition, and emphasizes the authenticity of the record, and its photographic images have a certain social significance and historical documentary value.

Compared to the "street sweeping" although there is a little shadow of documentary photography, but it is more relaxed form of shooting, the requirements of a broader, more casual subject matter, is not strictly documentary photography. In any case, with the popularization of photography, "street sweeping" has become a popular form of photography, and the best way to enter the door of documentary photography.

Sweeping lens preferred "fixed focus"

Sweeping lens is recommended to prefer a fixed-focus lens, for the following three reasons:

1, "sweeping" is different from the travel photography, do not need to record all the things on the street. Not a mirror to go all over the world". On the contrary, "street sweeping" is an opportunity to understand the imaging characteristics of a particular focal length lens (perspective, aberration, depth of field, etc.), not through the hand zoom but through the feet (walking back and forth) "zoom" to achieve the purpose of changing the field of view, so that photography is more fun and charm;

2, "street sweeping" is different from the travel shooting, do not need to record all the things on the street, do not need to "one lens to go everywhere".

2. Fixed-focus lenses usually have a relatively large aperture, which provides a higher shutter speed, which can more clearly frame the image moment in the street-sweeping photography. Usually people choose to walk on the street after dinner, when the sky is dark, the advantage of a large aperture is more obvious, in addition to fixed-focus lens imaging is better, the large aperture to bring a stronger sense of atmosphere;

3, the use of fixed-focus lens fixed perspective, which to a certain extent restricts the subject matter of our shooting, avoiding the use of zoom lenses a moment to use telephoto end of the local a moment to shoot the whole of the wide-angle end of the shot, this can be a quiet and concentrated, so you can shoot the whole of the world, and the whole of the world. This way, we can concentrate more on shooting, and the style of the film is also more unified.

Best or 24mm-85mm

Fixed-focus lenses recommended 24mm-85mm focal length, especially 35mm and 50mm focal lengths. In fact, "street sweeping" is a very self, a very relaxed way of shooting, there is no absolute limit to the focal length, short to ultra-wide-angle and fisheye, long to a variety of "cannon", as long as you like can.

But the charm of "street sweeping" lies in the faces and stories on the street, but because there are many people on the street, so it's best not to use a 24mm or less angle of view is too wide and 85mm or more long focal length lens.

Beginners, on the one hand, due to inexperience can not manage too wide perspective and distortion; on the other hand, "street sweeping" is a process of feeling the life on the street, the beginning of the use of similar 70-200mm telephoto lenses, will widen the distance between us and the subject, and ultimately make the picture look boring,

Moreover, the telephoto lens is more likely to ignore the environment, making the picture have a sense of detachment, like in the sneak peek, peeping, and did not achieve the effect of real integration into the street;

In addition, most of the telephoto lens volume is huge, walking on the street is very conspicuous (with a sense of aggression), but also to the subject of a great deal of psychological pressure, which affects the true objectivity of our records.