{"id":19309,"date":"2025-11-25T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/?p=19309"},"modified":"2025-12-14T22:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:00:50","slug":"its-that-time-of-year-50mm-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/2025\/11\/25\/its-that-time-of-year-50mm-season\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s That Time of Year: 50mm Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Christmas season has officially started with the annual Santa Stroll in Ada’s Wintersmith Park.<\/p>\n

With it starts to Christmas photography season.<\/p>\n

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Children pose for a photo on a lighted bridge in Wintersmith Park Monday night at the annual Santa Stroll. I made this with my AF-S Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 at f\/2.0.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At recent events I’ve covered, I saw a lot of smartphone photography, and that works for a lot of us. Smartphones have amazing cameras, and I fold smartphone photography into my work all the time.<\/p>\n

But if you know me at all, I am very much a lens lover, and this time of year is a great time to grab your favorite lenses and turn yourself loose on lights, trees, parade floats, Santa Clauses, kids, and anything else that feels great to photograph.<\/p>\n

And as always, my first go-to lens is the 50mm. It’s a great focal length on cameras of any sensor size, and most 50mm lenses have large maximum apertures, like f\/1.8, f\/1.4, even a few around that feature f\/1.2, and those apertures not only let a huge amount of that precious Christmastime light in, they can also create very beautiful out-of-focus areas.<\/p>\n

Also, there is definitely something to be said for turning off all the automation of devices like smartphones and using something that makes us try a little harder to find the real narrative in our Christmas photos.<\/p>\n

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Almost all 50mm lenses are easy to use, small, lightweight, affordable, and capable of making nice images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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