Head and shoulder portraits are the bread and butter of many working photographers for many reasons. It doesn’t require a lot of expensive gear but it does require ‘space’.
In my very tight quarters of a classroom, picture a room of 32 20″iMacs, it doesn’t leave me any room to use a lens longer than a 50mm.
That in itself isn’t so tough as not having any ability to place lighting where we need it. We work mostly with cheap Yongnuo YN560 IV speed lights and its companion transmitter, often using 2 of them
