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I am going to shoot an evening parade with Christmas trees and Santa and the like. Do you have any helpful tips?

I have a 50 1.2 and an 85 1.2 , 70-200mm 2.8 and a wide angle which I am going to bring. I have other lenses.

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[–] KidElder@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Too dark for the 70-200 f2.8? No, just too heavy and bulky. The event is not going to wait for you so you need to change lenses quickly so I was thinking light and can fit in a jacket pocket. Unless you have some way to be comfortable working with it. Or were you going on a second camera?

My other thought with this lens are lots of people and you may be close to them most of the time so you likely won't get the benefit of most of the focal range of this lens. So all the weight for little use. Confirm it when scooping out of site imagining folks all over the place.

Sigma should be good between 20-24mm, probably 24 will get the most use as you don't want folks looking too small.

[–] LightpointSoftware@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have used the 70-200mm 2.8 for several events for hours at a time and I am comfortable using it.

I will use the 14-24mm for establishing shots. I have used it for wide group shots, but I am not doing that for this venture.

I am happy with the pictures I have taken wide open with the 1.2s. I don’t think that will be a problem

[–] KidElder@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Sounds like you have it covered. Good luck and have fun!