Yes, You Need That Lens Hood
There are three reasons why you want to use that lens hood that came with your lens: (1) It’s actually specially designed for your lens to reduce the lens flare that we’re likely to encounter while shooting portraits outdoors. Lens flare is bad for all sorts of reasons, like putting big color rings over part of your photo, but one of the biggies is that you lose overall contrast in your portrait. So, the lens hood helps big time in reducing lens flare, which is good. (2) It protects your lens from getting scratched. That hood has kept the face of my lens from getting scratched more times than I can count, so I always ...
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