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Favorite Lens

8/20/2017

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​We all have that one lens that we gravitate towards every time we pick up our cameras for me, it’s the 75-300mm f 4-5.6(you can get it here). For a lens of this range, it's smaller, lighter weight, cheaper than other lenses in this class. But don’t be fooled by this the lens is quite powerful and great for someone starting out or on a budget and need something with a large focal length. 
​I work primarily work outdoors and this lens is great for daytime shooting. When I shoot festivals it’s great for getting crowd shots and people milling around it also allows a very short me to get all the action on the stage, for portrait shoots gives a nice bokeh at longer focal lengths.

PictureTaken with a Canon 10D f/4.5 ISO 100 shutter speed 1/250 sec. focal length 160mm
​The glass quality in it is pretty good I can use a 13-year-old Canon 10D with it and still get great shots.  There are a few downsides to this lens though there is no image stability, at longer focal lengths the images are little on the softer side, it needs a lot of light or higher ISO to get great images, and somewhat slow to autofocus.  For me personally theses aren't big problems because of my shooting style, where I'm shooting 
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Depending on what you’re doing you can still make great use of this lens. If it is a little bit of learning curve trying to figure the best settings to maximise the lens used but that’s true of lens you buy. 

PictureTaken with a canon 70D f/4.5 ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/350 sec. focal length 135mm
 If you're looking for something more powerful than this the 70-200mm f/2.8 lens (you can get it here) is the way to go but just now the price goes up significantly but it’s sharper, not as slow to focus and doesn’t really have that softening problem. I still gravitate more 75-300 because of the fact that my gear gets too heavy with the other lens and I have to stop frequently due to a shoulder injury. I also don’t see a big enough image quality difference to warrant changing how I do things for now. ​

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    Ashley Johnson

    Ashley is a  Virginia based photographer living her dreams of shooting concerts & interesting people. ​When she's not shooting or writing for the blog you can find her curled up with a good book and a latte (coffee keeps her going).  

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