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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rocketman122" data-source="post: 295761" data-attributes="member: 14443">maybe you dont frequent this part of the forum a lot. but I am pretty active here. dont put yourself down. be realistic with where you are. keep striving to be better. manual mode is great for honing down exposure control. after time you could look at a scene and know what the exposure should be more or less. content is important but certain rules apply to conveying a feel and certain things are right and wrong. 50 is a nice FL but I prefer others before going for a 50. I prefer 20/24/70-300 before going for a 50. for chest/face shots of 2-4 people its great. full body shots its way to open. meaning, if you shoot tight vertically theres too much space on the sides to make it isolated. 85 and up will keep it tighter, blur more and be much more aesthetically pleasing. so thats why I dont really like it. for horizontal, 50 is great for group shots of 5 or more. on friday I shot a bat mitzvah and was shooting family shots at 100mm and more. even 10 people, I spread them out to the sides and made a straight line and shot them at 135mm. theyre perfectly straight, and aesthetically its much more pleasing. I prefer to go back and use a tele then to be in peoples faces with a 50 or less. it just looks so much better. 50 is ok, but I prefer other FL than that. I do have to shoot people often in the 50 range but if given the chance ill go back and zoom in. sometimes theyre even confused why im shooting from so far back. "are we going to be so small in the picture? I tell them no, youre going to look fabulous.</blockquote>

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