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Best option for Equine portraiture


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TerryBoydon

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Hi,

    can anyone recommend a lens for use with a D7000 for getting good shots of my wifes horse ?I would like to get good head shots as well as full body, ive been using the Nikon 35mm F1.8 and its been ok but would like to know what would be better ?



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Please define better. Is it that you have to get uncomfortably close for the head shot or that you have to step too far back to frame the whole horse? If 35 mm is right, the 35/1.8 FX gives a bit less busy OOF areas than the DX and the 35/1.4 AF-S is an expensive, but far superior lens. All the f/1.8 lenses are very good, even if the f/1.4 versions are even better.



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nikdood17

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I'd suggest a Horseman 4x5 film camera but I would be kidding, or horsing around, if you will. I don't see why the lens you have won't do the job. Perhaps you need to think about the f-stops you are using. Are you trying to use too large an f-stop and getting shallow focus on the subject matter? A photo or two would help us try to figure out what the mane problem is. I would not want to see you saddled with an expensive lens you don't really need.



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The 35mm should be fine but if you want some additional working distance you might try a 50mm or an 85mm. On DX both of those could be considered classic portrait lenses although not necessarily in the equine sense. I agree that some example photos would be helpful as well as a general idea of what you're trying to accomplish.

 

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