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Originally posted by Patrick:
Just wondering if I'm the only personal who doesn't use a flash? I see the talk of it here, but I just set up two/three studio lamps with the light bounced off umbrellas. I know that's a pain for some to set up, but I just don't like the look of a flash, even a bounced flash (sometimes). Anyone have some good advice for it as I'm always game to learn something new to make life easier.

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Me too, especially when overdone outdoors in direct sunlight or not correct lighting situations or not diffused properly.

Indoors with a diffuser you can actually get really nice photos as well as your method. Too bad they take batteries and don't run off the power of the camera itself.

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Originally posted by dak:
Congrats on the purchase!

More lenses are fun! My advice would be to keep in mind that the focal length for the lens you are looking at buying, is already duplicated by the two lenses you have. You would essentially be adding a redundant lens to your gear.

Seriously consider a fixed focal length for a portrait lens. I bought Nikon's fixed 50mm 1.8G (could be the 1.4G, can't remember). Your camera has a 1.5x crop factor, which will make it a 75mm, which is a good, widish, portrait angle for a lens. The benefit to these lenses is that they are FAST! and the bokeh is incredible. You can get paper thin depth of field and creamy, blurry bokeh in the background.

Anyway, congrats on the new camera! Enjoy, and share some pics!

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Originally posted by oneagain:
Patrick,

If you got the area illumiated well with 'static' light, then no need for the flash, of course.

That is the ideal situation. I'd like to buy some dedicated lamps for such a situation and to be able to control the light. Also would like to mess with reflectors.

I agree with Norcal...I got a hotshoe flash for my Canon and I always diffuse and bounce off the ceiling/wall, etc...makes a bunch of difference

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Make sure with your static lighting IE:Soft boxes, Umbrellas, etc you use the slave flash unit because you still won't get optimal quality photos without a pop just under regular F-stops and ISO adjustments. Been there, tryed that... I love static lights indoors, the hotshoe done right can be amazing with the right lens.

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Congrats on the purchase!

More lenses are fun! My advice would be to keep in mind that the focal length for the lens you are looking at buying, is already duplicated by the two lenses you have. You would essentially be adding a redundant lens to your gear.

Seriously consider a fixed focal length for a portrait lens. I bought Nikon's fixed 50mm 1.8G (could be the 1.4G, can't remember). Your camera has a 1.5x crop factor, which will make it a 75mm, which is a good, widish, portrait angle for a lens. The benefit to these lenses is that they are FAST! and the bokeh is incredible. You can get paper thin depth of field and creamy, blurry bokeh in the background.

Anyway, congrats on the new camera! Enjoy, and share some pics!

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Thanks! This has been really great advice and I really appreciate it. Someone else told me about the 50mm as well so I think that will be my next purchase.

This is why I love this forum. :-)

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I would immediatly grab the 50mm 1.4 instead of the 1.8 even though they cost about $200 more. The sharpness and overall quality is so much higher and it won't break as fast.

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