Dang, someone that actually talks about composition vs just saying "this gear is sick af". Thanks man

35 if you want the environment to be as important as subject.
50 for more importance on the subject. 85 for all attention on subject

I just bought a Nikon 35mm f1.4 lens for taking portraits. Your explanation of the importance of the background in creating the image is very insightful. Now I’m more aware of the role that the background plays in constructing a good portrait photo. Thank you!

I was searching the internet for the past couple of days to decide which lens will be my first one after the kit lens that came with my new camera. I struggled between the 50mm and 35mm, but in this video you just nailed what I love about capturing in photos and therefore I will go for the 35mm. Thanks for helping me with my final choice!

What you said resonated with me. I've only used 50mm 1.8 until now, and for most of the photos I use blur as the composition technique. After a while, it kind of felt like I'm doing the same thing again and again. Now, with 35mm, I can bring in that background into the picture and move on to other compositional techniques, which I feel is liberating. Thanks for the video!

Learn ton shit of knowledge just from 8 minutes of your wisdom, more than dozens of hours spend fidgeting around, watching other videos. Absolute quality content, many thanks!!!!!

I'm finding this video super late, but let me say - your style in these shots is so evocate, emotional, dreamy. It's this type of look exactly that made me so intrigued by 35mm portraits. Thank you. I'm now off to binge the rest of your channel and hope to take shots like yours someday.

Tommy it's been a minute ...but thanks for this one of the best and most concise with great samples, love your work.

my FAVOURITE FAVOURITE thing about your photos is the fact that they arent OVER-EDITED yknow??? like those tiktok photographers that over clarify everything in their photos and vignette everything,,,, no sir YOUR photos are BEAUTIFUL

I really loved this video. I've shot with 50 & 35s almost exclusively for so many years. 35mm is definitely more difficult to use for me and I think the reason is you have to be much more conscious and deliberate about your background, angle, and composure compared to a 50mm prime. Your advice about dedicating to a single focal length is probably key advice to really grasp and grow your skills for that specific focal length. Switching focal length to often can be confusing, 😂

Once upon a time, during the film era a 35 mm lens was all that was deemed necessary to achieve outstanding results in 90% of the situations. Leica earned its reputation on the strength of outstanding performance of her 35mm Summicrons and Summilux line of 35mm and 50mm lenses. Great photography BTW.

Still loving the 40mm pancake on Canon ff. It sits nicely „in between“ and not getting an all blurry background with its 2.8f limit makes you think a lot about composition. Tack sharp as well.

Great Video. I’ve only been shooting with my Fujifilm x100 for the past year, which has a fixed 35mm. I feel like exclusively using this focal length has improved my photography.

Wow dude I’m amazed your channel has so few subscribers. Your vibe is really good. Keep the channel going dude, it’ll blow up eventually.

Yes !!! 35 mm is Definitely a Powerful "Must Have" for Portraits !!!

Mine will be a 35 and 85 combo

I watched a ton of videos trying to decide what to buy. But this is the one that finally convinced me. Appreciate that

I bought it after watching this video !

Good video, 35mm is great, wide enough for environmental portraits, but it’s not wide enough to cause distortion. Overall, it creates very pleasing images.

I can agree quite a lot with you. I'm just like you, a person who place scene as part of composition and storytelling, but i am more a 135mm lens, doing just the same.... as long as there are enough room for me. Due to that limitations I found myself in the same conclusions as you with the 24mm STM as it works as 38mm, becoming my current favorite lens. It can achieve a nice bokeh, but still so far away an f1.4, but due to the field of view, close focus distance and it's cropped-down 24mm properties such as perspective and distortion, no where near to a FF 24mm but different to an FF 35mm it gets a quite nice and versatile combo. I wouldn´t say it's not too wide/tight, sure it's wide, but it's cropped normal-type frame with a wide background worked so so good for me that I'm falling in love with 35mm lenses too.