EOS R6 Mark II Lens recommendations for family photos of up to 10 people

[Ragul]

Hi I bought recently R6 Mark ii. Which lens is need to buy to take a photos for group of 5 to 10 people with high background blur.

[jrhoffman75]

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@Ragul wrote:

Hi I bought recently R6 Mark ii. Which lens is need to buy to take a photos for group of 5 to 10 people with high background blur.

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Almost any lens can meet that need depending on your shooting conditions.

1. Are the people going to be in a straight line 10 across or a clustered group?

2. Indoors or out? In other words how much light?

3. What will the background be? How much distance between the subjects and background?

4. Do you have any lenses now? Which one(s)?

[Ragul]

1. Are the people going to be in a straight line 10 across or a clustered group?

clustered

2. Indoors or out? In other words how much light?

Indoor with normal home light at night 

3. What will the background be? How much distance between the subjects and background?

2ft

4. Do you have any lenses now? Which one(s)?

Currently I have RF50 Prim f1.8

[justadude]

In addition to what John just asked... What is your budget?  That will make a big difference in what we recommend.  What is affordable to some people is not always affordable to others, so just give us a general idea on what you would like to spend, please.

[ebiggs1]

I can cut to the chase and belay all the what ifs, ands, and buts. Buy the 24-70mm f2.8L and you will have a lens that will do 80% of all your photographic needs. No matter what. Add a nice tele zoom to round out the package.

[shadowsports]

And while we're on this topic... What is the budget?  🤑

[p4pictures]

At this point I'm in "humour mode", so an RF 400mm F2.8L IS USM and a big open space with plenty of distance between the subject and the background 😁 

[stevet1]

Ragul,

You are asking the lens to do almost the impossible.

How much indoors? In a living room, or a gymnasium? If it's in a living room, you are going to need a short focal length, because you don't 't have room to back up.

You want people clustered in a group, which implies a small or high aperture number so you have a greater depth of field to get everyone in focus, but that defeats your need for a high degree of background blur.

If there is only 2 feet of distance behind your subjects, you're not going to get much, if any background blur unless you use a large aperture, but then everyone will not be in focus.

If I could make a suggestion, put up a large sheet or dark background of a solid color and put your subjects in front of that and forget about trying to achieve background blur. 

Steve Thomas

[ebiggs1]

"You are asking the lens to do almost the impossible."

Not really Steve when all is said and done something in the 24-70mm will be the best choice.

[TomRamsey]

It will be tough to have an entire group in focus and have a background blur.  You could buy a background that is blurry.