Street portraiture

[simonblue]

I do a lot of street shooting,tend to work mostly with wide angle,not sure if you could call mine street portraiture

 

[DigitalRelish]

85mm sounds pretty long on a D7000 for street shooting. I would get either the 35mm F/1.8 or the 50mm F/1.8 instead. The 35mm will give you a nice equivelent of just over 50mm, which is a great focal length for this kind of shooting. The 85mm you have will work out at 127mm, which is a good 37mm over your classic portrait length and into voyeuristic telephoto length!

135mm on 35mm has long been considered a 'classic' portrait focal length too.

Also, an 85mm f/1.8 lens isn't physically much larger than a 50mm f/1.8.

I've seen lots of great street portraits shot on a APS-C camera and lens > 50mm e.g. here.

 

[mininut]

This is an excellent idea that i'm definitely going to try once my broken Clavicle is sorted! can't even lift a camera to my eye at the moment

M.