I am going to shoot an evening parade with Christmas trees and Santa and the like. Do you have any helpful tips?

I have a 50 1.2 and an 85 1.2 , 70-200mm 2.8 and a wide angle which I am going to bring. I have other lenses.

  • LightpointSoftware@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Interesting. Some people are saying use the 1.2s wide open.

    I added that the wide lens is a 14-24mm 2.8 Sigma with an FTZ converter.

    You think it will be too dark for the 70-200mm 2.8?

    1/125 sounds reasonable. I can hand hold that easily enough and is slow enough to gather light. I will try that tonight when I test the event site. Thanks.

    • KidElder@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Too dark for the 70-200 f2.8? No, just too heavy and bulky. The event is not going to wait for you so you need to change lenses quickly so I was thinking light and can fit in a jacket pocket. Unless you have some way to be comfortable working with it. Or were you going on a second camera?

      My other thought with this lens are lots of people and you may be close to them most of the time so you likely won’t get the benefit of most of the focal range of this lens. So all the weight for little use. Confirm it when scooping out of site imagining folks all over the place.

      Sigma should be good between 20-24mm, probably 24 will get the most use as you don’t want folks looking too small.

      • LightpointSoftware@alien.topOPBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I have used the 70-200mm 2.8 for several events for hours at a time and I am comfortable using it.

        I will use the 14-24mm for establishing shots. I have used it for wide group shots, but I am not doing that for this venture.

        I am happy with the pictures I have taken wide open with the 1.2s. I don’t think that will be a problem