I volunteered to do a modeling shoot, and I got to learn a bit about how what apertures to use on a 50mm f\/1.4 lens. In this case, I was using a Canon 50mm USM f\/1.4 lens.<\/p>\n
I don’t think you ever want to use it wide open since it gets really soft. At f\/2.0 it is still soft but it has a nice blur. If you take a head shot at f\/2.0, you get some really sharp eyes (if you focus there) and all the wrinkles blur away.<\/p>\n
Do not use f\/2.0 for a bust or full body shot. Bad idea. Everything is blurry.<\/p>\n
When you get to f\/5.0, that’s a great f-stop for a couple. You still aren’t tack sharp yet.<\/p>\n
At f\/5.6, you get tack sharp photos.<\/p>\n
Beyond f\/5.6 sharpness begins to fade, but just slightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I volunteered to do a modeling shoot, and I got to learn a bit about how what apertures to use on a 50mm f\/1.4 lens. In this case, I was using a Canon 50mm USM f\/1.4 lens. I don’t think you ever want to use it wide open since it gets really soft. At f\/2.0 … Continue reading Aperture in a 50mm Lens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}