The 5 Best Prime Lens Focal Lengths for Portraits

(Editor’s Note: Zach Sutton is a commercial beauty photographer and editor of Lensrentals‘ blog.)

I absolutely love prime lenses. So much so, in fact, of the dozen or so lenses I own, all but one or two of them are prime lenses. Their sharpness is unparalleled by zoom lenses, and their faster aperture speed allows for depth of field play that works perfectly for the portrait work I do.