A Fast 135mm Portrait Lens
You now know that my two go-to lenses for portraits are the 70–200mm f/2.8 and the 85mm f/1.8, but there’s another lens that’s also quite popular with portrait shooters, so I wanted to include it here, as well, even though I don’t use it myself. The 135mm lens is considered by some portrait photographers to be the absolute perfect focal length for portraits, and it’s right in that flattering lens compression range (you don’t see much visible difference in lens compression once you get above 135mm), so for some, it’s just too perfect. The Canon 135mm f/2 is actually a good deal because it’s f/2 (which is awesome for creating ...
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