Here are some pictures of my dogs, Cooper and Chance taken with one of my favorite lenses the Nikon 50mm 1.4. This has got to be one of the best bargins in the entire industry. If you have a 35mm camera and don't have this lens, you need to put it on your wish list. Cannon makes one that is great too for about the same price. Last I checked the lens was about $350, which is the cheapest pro-quality piece of glass you can buy.There is a 50mm 1.8 yout there too, but it is NOT a pro quality lens. It does however shoot better outside. This is because the 1.4 was made for indoor, low-light and the 1.8 was made for brighter conditions. Even though it opens up to 1.8, it looks plain awful until you stop it down to about f/4 or so. The 1.4 actually starts getting worse around that aperture so it performs better in low-light and gives you that creamy out-of-focus bokeh and shallow depth-of-field.
If you don't know what I am talking about, sign up for my photography class, it's great, fun, and everyone always tells me how much they get out of it.
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