You'll want to use the shortest lens you have that doesn't produce
visible distortion, 24mm would be ideal, the 21 is probably too wide to
be acceptable, so it looks like the 30mm is it. The sharpest lens isn't
required since the output is only going to be a 5x7, any lens with
reasonable sharpness and contrast will be good enough. Try too get a
look at the shots taken in the past to see what the regular guy did for
composition, it'll give you a rough guide of what they want.
On 5/28/2012 11:42 AM, Tim Bray wrote:
Since the Little League’s “real photographer” is unavailable, I’ve
been asked to shoot the annual portrait of the 45 “graduating”
12-year-old players and get 5x7’s made for them. Group shot, not
portraits. I’ve never done anything remotely like this and if anyone
here has, advice would be welcome. Not just cameras but
composition/procedure/whatever.
It’ll be on the grass by the traditional-looking scoreboard.
This will be the K-5. My thinking is that even if we can squeeze them
into 3 rows (and it may just be 2), it’s a pretty wide shot. So I’m
thinking of my wide lenses, the 21mm Limited and 30mm Sigma f1.4. My
*sharpest* lenses are the 100mm Macro and 50-135, but I don’t think
either are gonna work in this scenario. This is where having the
18-55 might be useful...
Anyhow, any wisdom would be greatly appreciated. -T
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