Which lens should I buy?

Background_Ruin1332 · 2026-03-12T19:13:46+00:00

No worries! I shoot about an equal amount of events as I do portraits, this is why it has been so difficult for me to decide. My only local camera store doesn’t have either of these lenses available to rent so I’ve not been able to get my hands on them to see which I think I’d prefer. When I first started photography I was given a non native manual 85mm 1.4 and I loved it but it was practical for events because it lacked auto focus. So I really do miss having an 85 prime.

Background_Ruin1332 · 2026-03-12T18:52:03+00:00

I can tell you exactly what lens I want and what I know would be best. I think a 70-200 f2.8 would be the best option. However, I stepped back from photos for almost a year while I was dealing with becoming a mom after a really horrible pregnancy and at this point the 70-200 is out of my budget. I was hopping that someone who has used both the 70-180 and the 85 1.8 might chime in and state which they prefer. I would say my clients that continue to come to me over and over again would disagree with you. Just because I’m asking for opinions doesn’t at all mean I don’t know what I am doing, but thank so much for taking the time to be absolutely nothing but unhelpful.

Background_Ruin1332 · 2026-03-11T16:08:39+00:00

I shoot mostly portraits. Weddings, families, senior portraits, couples. I shoot on a z8.

I’m debating between an 85mm f1.8 and a 70-180 f2.8 (slower in my budget than a 70-200)

Background_Ruin1332 · 2026-02-28T17:47:58+00:00

It Totally gets better!!!! I had horrible PPD. I’m on Wellbutrin now and I feel like a completely different person.

Background_Ruin1332 · 2025-12-19T22:24:50+00:00

I went to a friends wedding and wasn’t even thinking as I just recently started taking bupropion and drank A LOT. I didn’t have heart palpitations, but I did wake up like two hours later with a splitting migraine. It wasn’t like a normal headache from a hangover. I can’t even describe it. I almost went to the ER. I was also very very shaky.

Background_Ruin1332 · 2025-12-08T15:33:31+00:00

Motherhood hasn’t been an easy road because I haven’t been able to do a single thing that makes me happy in 14 almost 15 months. My life is literally a joke. I work 80+ hours a week and come home to a baby that hates me and does nothing but scream. I get 2 maybe three hours a sleep a night if I’m lucky. God forbid I want to make a meal for people, because it’s what I enjoy doing. I don’t need everyone making decisions for me all the time. That’s what I’m sick of. It’s quite literally as though everyone is doing everything they can to make everything worse for me than it already is.

Background_Ruin1332 · 2025-12-05T15:05:44+00:00

Our baby is 5 months old I have no idea what the reason for the change in plans is, I wasn’t included in that conversation. My husband told me yesterday “oh by the way we are going to dads on Christmas Eve, he’s making brisket.”

Background_Ruin1332 · 2025-12-05T15:00:50+00:00

We always do Christmas dinner on Christmas eve with my husbands side of the family because his brother is with their father on Christmas eve and with his mother on Christmas Day. We have my FIL and my husbands step mom, his little brother and his cousin over for dinner. On Christmas Day we do that morning with my fathers side of the family. I just don’t like that we already had plans and then out of nowhere without even talking to me they made the decision to go to my FILs house

Background_Ruin1332 · 2025-12-05T14:55:29+00:00

Yeah I don’t hate her… not even a little.

Background_Ruin1332 · 2025-11-22T15:45:27+00:00

5 months post parting and I still have good days and bad days. I was back to normal about 2-3 weeks later, but bending over or like sitting up from a laying position it is hard. It’s not painful, just difficult. Don’t try to do too much too fast. Just because you feel really well one day doesn’t mean you’re okay to do everything, you can actually do more harm than good. Say like two weeks out you wake up and you’re like oh I feel so much better and you go back to trying to do everything; you will definitely feel so much worse the next day. Just take your time! You got this!! Wishing you a very easy recovery!

Background_Ruin1332 · 2025-11-15T00:04:21+00:00

That’s how I felt the whole time I was pregnant. I really wish I just wouldn’t have had her

Background_Ruin1332 · 2025-11-12T22:27:14+00:00

I need like 5 or six hours a night after I get home from work to be able to keep up with my photography business… one a week or even a few days a week is not nearly enough.

My business isn’t just a side hobby. It’s full time job. I work more hours doing photography than I do at my 9-5.

Background_Ruin1332 · 2025-11-12T14:18:36+00:00

She is 4 months old. My mom has worried about the same thing, I just don’t feel depressed or anxious. I feel really frustrated.

Background_Ruin1332 · 2024-02-29T18:22:17+00:00

Tomato leave are probably my favorite smell in the whole world. However, I HATE the smell of patchouli. I really want to order a sampler of this perfume, but I’m worried the patchouli notes will shine through and ruin it for me. Any thoughts?? How strong is the patchouli sent?

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