Taylor Jackson
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$199 Lens! Can you do a full day of WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY? Canon RF 50mm F1.8 STM
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Behind the scenes wedding photography with the Canon RF 50mm f/1.8 STM on a Canon R6.
Can this lens do a full day of wedding photography?
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Hello. How are you today?
I’ve just purchased my first nifty 50 lens as I am doing my first wedding shoot in 2 days. This video has been perfect for me to gain a bit of insight into the lens.
The reason we pay the extra $$$$ is for the pop against the creamy background. If you look only at an image taken with the 50 1.8 it looks fine. But if you put identical shots taken with the 50 1.8 and the 50 1.2 beside each other the difference is immediately apparent, and it is not subtle. Wish it weren't so, but it is. And the client may be perfectly happy with their images. Until they later see, for example, their friends' wedding images where the photographer did use a 50 1.2. And the client doesn't know why, but they just love their friends' wedding pictures so much more (clients may not be able to realize its the beautifully-blurred creamy bokeh). They just wonder why, by comparison, theirs look more like snapshots. Beautifully composed and beautifully rendered snapshots, but just not *that different from what could be achieved on an iphone.
From a business perspective, in an age of increasing excellence from iphone and smartphone images and with the advent of ai, pro photographers increasingly need to show how what we can do is different and unobtainable except by hiring a pro photographer aka someone who has a 1.2 lens. Very soon, really now, images taken with walk-around quality lenses are indistinguishable from images taken with later-model iphones. Saying its okay to offer, for paid work, images with so-so bokeh and separation will just contribute to the further erosion of our industry. Just my two cents.
I'm not a wedding photographer however, do own the EF version of this great lens. Yes, I can do portraiture whole day with this lens mounted on any of the legendary 5D series DSLRs.
Helo bro, file raw or jpeg?
Heyy!! Isnt this shoot near Toronto?
Great photographer perspective about wedding. Yes, it's a great low budget lens. I personally use Sigma 50mm f1.4 HSM and also a great option for budget lens. Good luck wit youre work!
This video is excellent! I've been leaning pretty heavily on my Canon 24-105 f4 L (EF) for group events lately. But I own the RF 50 f1.8 STM. Maybe now I'll be brave enough to use in a professional way. Also, what is your post-production like? Some of the tones I'm seeing in your photography are really quite lovely.
I love photography and I love this type of video❤
My ef 50mm 1.8 is kind of crap. I’ve had 3.
the voiglander bokeh it crates makes for fantastic stuff with the light and trees!
Thanks for share this video. Very beautiful photos and very interesting your opinion about this lens. I am a Nikon user but I use a crop sensor with the sigma art 30mm 1.4. It would be a 45mm 1.4 full frame but it works fine and that is the lens that I use 70% time in weddings. Regards!!
I would love to see this lens compared to the sigma 50 1.4 ART
…what about Ethiopia?
I’m watching in December 2022. Hopefully i can be one of the people who gets to hang out with you when you come to Japan next time!!
These SOOC pics are still ever so crispy. Amazing!!!!!
Nice video. You let an oops slip out with your non-Canon reference to a 200-500 though!😁 But great shots, great song 😂and appreciation
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Omg, the sooc images are amazing, beautiful rendering and colors.
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My R6 with RF 50 1.8 will be here tomorrow I’m so pumped after watching this. Going back through my photos I had forgotten how many of my favorite images were taken on my 80D and 6D Mark II with the EF “nifty fifty.”
Thank you so much. One thing which puts me off photographing Weddings is all the gear. I was edging towards just using my 35mm but am thinking I'll pop the 50mm in now too. Lovely natural images, thanks for your advice.
Shoutout to Dundurn Castle, great spot in Hamilton!