Sigma 10-20 for group portraits?

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I've got to do a group portrait for 15 people at the weekend, probably five across and three deep. I'd usually use the 18-135mm for something like this but I also have a Sigma 10-20 which I haven't actually got round to using yet. Would this be suitable for a large group shot or will it create too much distortion?
 
If you're planning to use the 10-20 at 10mm then those on the peripheryof the group will look a bit odd.....
 
Dman said:
For 15 people on a cropped sensor? I'd have to stand pretty far back for that!



I was thinking more of around 15mm?
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You didn`t say if it was inside or out or if there would be room.
For full frame I would go for about 70mm, I probably wouldn`t use much less than 50mm for a 1.6x crop. !5mm is still way too wide. :)
 
chilliz said:
You didn`t say if it was inside or out or if there would be room.
For full frame I would go for about 70mm, I probably wouldn`t use much less than 50mm for a 1.6x crop. !5mm is still way too wide. :)
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Problem is it's inside and I don't know how much room I've got yet, which is why I was going to take the 18-135 so I've pretty much got it covered, plus it's a pretty sharp lens. Was thinking of something different with the Sigma but doesn't seem like it's worth it.
 
The way I learned many years ago with film cameras, anything less than your natural feild of view has to distort the image, because you`re getting more in than the eye can see. It always made good sense to me. But there`s nowt wrong with trying something. :)
 
on a crop like your D90 I'd go for 30mm for a group portrait. I've used mt Sigma 30 for 10-15 people indoors and it works just fine. No way you would need anything wider than 25mm!!! :thumbs:
 
Definitely too much distortion. Be good fun to use it after capturing the conventional picture though. Sometime fun pictures are well received !
 
Depends on the look you are going for. I personally love the perspective distortion the Sigma gives, and PD is used aplenty to create effects in movies or photoshoots. Go wild!
 
As a fun shot use 10mm with the tallest people at the edge with shortest in the middle :D
 
Here are some examples of Sigma 10-20 distortion:

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Cartoon window!


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318 270 gets the wangle treatment.
 
It can be worse than that... check this out... in particular the young lady in the orange overalls off to the right...

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(Just spent ages trying to find that photo - I knew I had it somewhere!)
 
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