How to Actually Shoot a 50mm Lens on the Street
The 50mm is the lens most people buy first because it's the cheapest prime in the catalog, and plenty of them spend the first few months shooting it wide open just to see the background melt. Fewer people learn to see at that focal length, and the habits that work at 28mm or 35mm tend to fall apart once you move to something tighter. Roman Fox reaches for a 50mm whenever he goes out in London to do street work, though he picks 35mm or 40mm for travel. His own start was a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 tha
The 50mm is the lens most people buy first because it's the cheapest prime in the catalog, and plenty of them spend the first few months shooting it wide open just to see the background melt. Fewer people learn to see at that focal length, and the habits that work at 28mm or 35mm tend to fall apart once you move to something tighter. Roman Fox reaches for a 50mm whenever he goes out in London to do street work, though he picks 35mm or 40mm for travel. His own start was a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 that stayed at f/1.8 for a long time. His first tip comes from a job he held before photography:…