Misconception about portrait lenses.

On distance in portrait photography…

Tim Gallo
4 min readMar 26, 2020

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© Tim Gallo. Shot on wide lens.

I see a lot of articles and videos on the subject of what is considered best portrait lens, and it seems a lot of them breed a misconception that telephoto lenses and anything beyond 50mm are your best choices.

When you think about what is considered the best portrait lens — 85, 135, 70–200 comes to many people’s…

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Tim Gallo

Based in Tokyo Japan, I work as celebrity portrait photographer. Sometimes Movie Director. Occasionally poet. I apologise for not perfect english. timgallo.com