I hate post-processing, but I think this photograph deserves to have its colors popping a bit more. It’s such a nice picture.

Thanks, I feel like this a lot. I love taking pictures with my “cheap” 50mm, and if I didn’t restrict myself to one lens only I’d bring that too because I just love it.

The 15-35 is the one tempting me the most, I’m just asking knowledgeable people if it will be enough for me with my crappy hands given the low light environment :)

Thanks a lot for the help!

I have experience with a 24mm prime and I was never truly satistied with landscape/scenery pictures because it was too narrow for them, and neither with portrait pictures because it was too wide. Of course, this is with it in my hands, there certainly are people out there who can use it better than I do.

I’m using a RF 15-30 f/4.5-6.3 when it’s bright outside and I like it a lot, I like the flexibility it gives me, that is why I’m tempted by the absolute brightness of the primes I’ve found, but also I’m tempted by the flexibility those zooms give me.

I don’t think I’ll be using an external flash because I fear my setup will become too cumbersome to carry around, and I prefer the feel I get from pictures when there is no flash involved :(

It’s going to have ambient lighting, similar to a fair, with those hanging light bulbs and illuminated stands. Hopefully I give the right idea, english is not my first language.

Another issue I have with the flash is that I don’t like its effect on the pictures, and I’ll be using it wrong because I’ve never used one so there’s also that.

Thanks a lot for the input!

Yes, I will be taking pictures of both the place and the people, especially of people being natural and not concerned about me, so I would avoid the flash for that reason too (also, the setup becomes too bulky with one).

I also enjoy very much shooting at 24mm but I’m not too comfortable with it in these situations, I’d like to be closer to the subjects but further from the scenery (if that even makes sense), but since I’m renting the lens I can go for something expensive which does both!

That 15-35 f/2.8, is it the RF one? It’s one of the lenses I’m considering. Do you have like a sample gallery I can take a look at?

Yeah, you’re right I messed up again. You use multiple, wide aperture shots to capture multiple shallow DOF pictures, and then stack the in-focus planes of each picture into one, creating a deeper DOF. Of course lol, sorry for the confusion.

Thank you for the great info! I’m learning a lot!

I really appreciate that! I’ll read those links! Just two things: you mean “narrower” aperture right? And also, this stacking is done in post production right? Because I know I have a focus stacking option in my camera but I’ve yet to use it and I was wondering if it’s for the same purpose.

So this can’t be just a wide-aperture picture because it’s a macro shot? In that case something this small would have a shallower DOF? I’m not a novice, but I’m definitely not a pro.

How can you tell?

Cool shit! I don’t understand the hashtags tho… And how about you add the details of this shot? Like aperture, shutter, etc