All language subtitles for 6 - Lenses for Food Photography - Photo Essentials Best Camera and Lenses for Food and Still Life Photography

We already touched the topic of lenses,

but let's discuss them in details,

which are the best lenses for food photography,

depending on the style that we're shooting,

we usually want to show something similar to what the humanize viewing.

Because normally when we shoot for photography or still life photography,

we're shooting in a closed space or in a small garden, let's say.

But we're not shooting from a big distance.

It is considered that 50 millimeter lenses are

the ones that are closer to the human eye view.

So starting from this point, of course,

50 millimeter lenses are one of the best for food photography,

but we can extend the range.

In my view, this is the range that we're looking for from

35 millimeters to about 100 millimeters, 35 millimeters.

Our lenses, which are why they go more or less.

So they might not be the best for every shooting angle,

but they are great for flatly.

On the other hand, 40, 50, 60 millimeters,

even 85 are almost multifunctional as 485,

it's already harder to accomplish flatly with them because they are not wide enough.

And with 100 millimeters,

you can create beautiful close-up photography.

But of course, shooting from above is almost

impossible unless you have a very high spends where you can attach your camera.

Of course, you can use different lenses if you have,

let's say a whitespace,

you can also use,

you can also go up to a 150 to 200 millimeters.

But in general, above a 100,

we're already talking about shooting at a longer distance.

100, 150, 200, 300,

400 there either macro or telephoto in most cases.

And they are not really ideal for food photography because still life photography,

you're shooting the object more or less closer.

On the other hand, you should consider also that there are two types of lenses,

prime lenses and zoom lenses.

Prime lenses are fixed focal length lenses.

Therefore, if you shoot something with prime lenses,

it always stays the same size unless you move forward or backwards.

While the zoom lenses represents a range of focal lens.

Therefore, you can just move your lenses

and the object is increasing or decreasing accordingly.

You might think at first that zoom lenses are more practical than the prime lenses.

And it is correct to certain extent because instead of buying 34 prime lenses,

you can just have one zoom lens.

The problem is that usually the best zoom lenses

are quite expensive and they're also quite big.

So if you are a starter,

you might not need really some huge glands,

which is also costing 23 K dollars of Europe starting with small but good lens,

guarantees you that you have a quite a nice quality of females.

And at the same time,

you'll be able to learn and use the maximum of these four covalent.

And while a lot of professional photographers use zoom lenses,

if you are a starter,

I would recommend you to buy prime lenses like 50 millimeters, for example.

50 millimeters in general,

are lenses that will guarantee you that you can take almost any kind of photography.

When we talk about zoom lenses,

of course, we need to talk about the Caitlin says, Well,

normally when you buy a crop frame camera,

it goes with the 18 to 55 millimeter zoom lenses.

They're quite light.

They are quite useful.

But they had certain limitations.

I like to bucket lenses because they come to 55 millimeter,

which is a great focal length for food photography.

And also 2035 is good for flat lay,

even though this particular lenses have quite a wide distortion.

But these lenses are quite good to practice food photography and to learn.

They're not very sharp,

the colors are not fantastic.

And you will see this once you buy your first real length is,

let's say the first quality lenses.

But zoom lenses are great

as a starting point because they also teach you how to use different focal lens.

The kit lenses are not good at bulky.

They are not achieving a good book in general.

But once you buy your first real answers,

you will be able to see that he's not your skills.

It's just the lesser, sometimes slender.

When I bought my first lenses,

they were 50 millimeter, 1.8.

And I was amazed by the level of bulkier they were achieving.

This was something that was exciting me so much and I immediately started

creating images which were better than the images I was taking before with my kid lenses.

However recently I tried again the kit lenses and actually I

realize that they're not as bad as I was thinking before.

So it's not only the lenses is also the skills.

And editing is something that will help you a lot in

the future to make beautiful images with almost any kind of lens.

So don't forget that the gear is not 0.

We have, our skills are quiet,

more important than the gear.