If you’re looking for a bright prime lenses for portrait photography then you’re looking to isolate your subject with a shallow depth of field, and a blurred background. With a high quality lens you’ll also get sharp subjects, and some specialist lenses give control over the background blur, or what it’s famously now referred to as “Bokeh”. With a bright prime lens you can get a sharp and detailed portrait shot, with beautifully blurred backgrounds, giving excellent subject separation.

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 at f/2.0 – Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
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