Spoken like a true professional.

I’m really glad I found your channel, it’s becoming increasingly harder to find people who know what they’re talking about when it comes to photography 🙏🏼

I love 28mm portraits. I think they have a terrific look, whether an environmental/atmospheric portrait, documentary, or intimate. Same goes for 24, 35, 50, 100, and 135. In my experience, every lens is a portrait lens. I agree with what you say here. And lovely work at the end!

The 35mm is my favorite lens, I enjoy showing the environment. I don't own an 85 right now, but I rarely use the 75-300mm that I have. Even when I do use it, I still include the environment in the shot.

I recently found your channel and I'm a big fan! Mainly because you are a working professional photographer with a KZread channel. Not a KZreadr with a channel about photography. Wow, what a difference that makes. It's very refreshing. Thank you.

I love portrait photography. It’s why I got into photography. I looked for years at different portraits that people took & I took note of the lenses used on the portraits I liked. The 2 lenses that I liked most were the 24 1.4 & the 100 2.8 STF. So, the only two primes I own & use for portraits are those two. It’s an easy setup to take with me, though I do need extra light for the 100, cuz the STF acts like a 5.6 but it produces the best backgrounds ever! Thanks for the video. This is the first video of yours I’ve seen. Well done. You got yourself a new sub. Best wishes!

I wanted to say thank you thank you and once again thank you. I was searching for portraits taken with the Leica Q2 ,the monochromatic one and my biggest concern was the 28 mm. You have Shown me not only can it be done but done well and almost in the portrait style that I’m used to. I have learned one thing at my age is that do stuff for yourself not for others. Bravo

And those are portraits that anyone would be proud of. Well Done!

I love content like this, I wish you good health and joy on your journey. Please keep these videos coming as it brings so much value to our young gen. Your words of wisdom is true gem on this digital era, where it flooded with chart readers and "creamy bokeh" monki

I’m currently a beginner photographer and yes, the trend of the “if you have a human in your photo shoot it at 50mm or longer at the widest aperture to be a professional” was really stuck in my head.

Thank you, a million times over for saying what I needed to hear. I've been shooting (an artist) for over 30 years. I'm looking to trade in my Sony gear for a Leica q3. While I feel my creativity would be my greatest asset as it's always served me well. I was a little nervous going from my 85mm and other lenses to a fixed 27mm. Life is extremely short and I want to look forward to being more creative and taking more chances and giving more room for growth. Thank you, thank you and thank you.

Great portraits! The distortion makes the pictures even more interesting and engaging. For those who still think that you can´t make portraits with wide angle lenses, I suggest leaving KZread and checking out the work of photographers like Jeanloup Sieff and Antonin Kratochvil, just to name a couple.

Wow. I have been taking photos for a very long time but only recently tried my hand at portraits.

Made your point and backed it up with beautiful images. Love it! You earned a new subscriber.

My thoughts exactly. Subject and content is really important and being able to express it into art is really essential. 85mm can direct focus to the subject but it is not the rule.

Absolutely! I did one recently of my wife on Yashica ML 28mm f2.8 outdoors and I love it - brick behind her with an alley. Context. Right distance from subject means distortion isn’t problem. Heartily agree with you.

So refreshing from another full time photographer without a KZread channel yet. You’re a good inspiration. Subscribed.

Your grumpiness and irate tone earned you a sub from me. Please take that as a compliment. I personally detest the trend for “pro” look to be nothing in focus. My favourite lens is the 28mm Elmarit.

This is the best I've heard in a long time. You're spot on with everything. As a fulltime photographer for the last 15 years I totally agree with everything you said. KZread is becoming a place where influencers make up trends and then pushing it down our throats all the time, and I hate it. Keep it up :)

Amen brother. I’ve watched a few of your videos, but this one gave impetus to my subscription. Thanks for sharing this perspective.