Over the last 7 years, we’ve tried many lenses and have narrowed down our favorite lenses we use for portraits. Today we’re going to break down our top three prime and zoom lenses.

Prime Lenses

So what is a prime lens? A prime lens is a fixed focal length lens. We love this for portraits because they’re crisp, sharp and allow more lighting into the sensor of the camera. If you’re in the market for a prime lens, we recommend a 50mm, 85mm, and macro 100mm. We shoot with Canon and love our Sigma Art 50mm, Canon 85mm and Canon macro 100mm (shown above).

Zoom Lenses

Zoom lenses are great if you’d like multiple focal lengths in one lens. With the pandemic, we wanted our clients to feel safe and comfortable during their session with no masks. While we continue to wear masks during the entire session, having our 70-200mm lens allowed us to capture our clients while keeping a safe distance for everyone. We feel the quality of these lenses are comparable to prime lenses we’ve mentioned above. We love our 24-70mm, 24-105mm, and 70-200mm lenses! The 24-105mm is super versatile. It goes from a wider to a little bit closer of a zoom and gives a nice balance. This is our go-to on a sunnier or well lit environment. The 24-70mm is another sharp lens. The advantage to this one is that it works better in lower light situations but it doesn’t allow as close of a zoom length in comparison to the 24-105mm.

Some of these may not be everyones go-to lenses, but these have been what we’ve enjoyed over the past few years. If you ever are in the market for a lens and have questions, drop a comment below! We’re always here to help 🙂