Workshop Experience : Photography Studies College Week #15
This week was another different tangent week as we approach ever nearer to our portfolio presentations.
Scott took us through the lens kit list for a professional, and showed us all his standard and non standard issue lenses and how he uses them on the different bodies he also gets issued.
The usual classic lenses were there - the nifty fifty of course (50mm prime from Canon) along with the IS version of the 70 to 200 mm telephoto.
My favourite the 16 to 35mm was also part of his to go to kit, and then he pulled out his new proud and joy, the 85mm prime. All of the red band and or white series of course! Couple with a 1D and new 5D body, the kit bag is complete !
Great to hear from a professional how he uses different lenses, why, and the stories he attaches to each of them. Which one to use always goes back to what is it you want the frame to say or portray or communicate, then choice the lens that does that in spades.
And as Scott finished by saying, only buy lenses once you reach the limits of what you already have, or if your current lens is restricting you from achieving the look that you are after. I recently purged a lot of my lenses and have now settled on just a few, although it could get even smaller. After all, choice and indecision ruins a good photograph.
I currently have settled on :
Leica Q with 28mmm prime for all simple street activity
Leica M6 with 35mmm ASPH Summicron for film street work
Leica M-P 240 with 50mm Summilux for street, night, still-life and portrait work
Canon 6D with 16-35mm and 70-200mm for landscape, starscape, and still life work
DJI P3P UAV with 20mm lens for aerial work
That will do me ! Too much choice in above still so will ween myself down even further over time I am sure.
Had to ramp up some still life images for the portfolio. Played around with some objects in the house, just using natural morning light inside plus a black background. Work to be done. Used my 6D with the 16-35mm lens to get some scale effects as best I could. All at ISO100, shutter speeds 1/500 to 1/2000 @ f5.6 or so.
Next week we go !