I recently purchased the Nikon 50mm f/1.8 and it's the first separate lens I've bought. I bought the lens because I wanted something that was going to create that pretty blurred background that everyone loves. When I was researching what lens to buy I was constantly directed towards this one. It took me some time to save up the money, but as soon as I could order it online, the 5-10 shipment days felt like a months worth time. I was constantly looking at my tracking number to see where it was, and when I received it, it was the wrong one! Out of my excitement, I skimmed through the specs too quickly and missed the fact that it was a manual focus lens. Which means for each picture you have to manually turn the front of the lens to focus your image. If it was my own personal lens, then I wouldn't have minded taking the time to manually focus each image, but I had bigger plans for this lens! It was to come with me in future senior and family shoots, baby photos, and children portraits. So I sent it back and paid the extra 100$ just for auto focus. Once I received this one in the mail, I was automatically pleased with it. It was fast, slim, and did everything I wanted it to perfectly!
Here are some examples of my work with this lens so far!
I have a lot more but these two are my most recent favorites!
What makes this blurred background is the f-stop on the lens. It allows you to focus down to 0.45 meters or 1.5 feet. It will focus something very close to you and then blur out the rest of the background and those kind of pictures are very popular right now! It puts a heavy main focus in the picture, even though the background blur is even pretty to look at!
All in all, I really recommend this lens! It's worth all of the money because it's so multifunctional!
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