I’ve used many different wide-angle lenses for group and wedding party pictures over the years. What led up to my recent purchase of the new Tamron 35mm f/1.4 lens However, it’s taken me a long time to find a 35mm lens that I truly love. It has beautiful sharp focus across the frame and excellent bokeh, it’s just a fantastic lens in almost every way. For my portraits of the bride and groom, and circumstances where I can step back further from a subject, I prefer to use my excellent Nikon 85mm f/1.4 lens. I do bring other lenses such as an ultra-wide, macro and telephoto for special circumstances, but the majority of my work is using these two primes. With my weddings the past few years, I’ve found I like to shoot them almost exclusively with 35mm f/1.4 and 85mm f/1.4 lenses. Once you’ve gotten used to the clarity, color, bokeh and viewfinder brightness of a professional f/1.4 prime, it’s hard to go back to zooms. You can check out a popular post I made about family photography with prime lenses back in 2015. Then, for the past few years, I’ve switched to using only prime lenses for my wedding and even family photography. Eventually, I got a Nikon 85mm f/1.4 prime lens that I loved. When I started out in wedding photography over 10 years ago, I used the typical zoom lenses you see recommended by many photographers. Some background on my use of prime lenses for weddings I will update this post if anything changes in my option after “hopefully” shooting many more weddings later this year. Since I’m stuck inside with the COVID-19 stay at home orders, I decided it was a good time to post my thoughts on this new lens. This is my real-world experience with the lens, shooting a couple of weddings, bridal portraits and some family pictures. There are plenty of those out there already. First of all, this isn’t a detailed technical review of the new Tamron SP 35mm f/1.4 lens.
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