Lens hood

Naive question, need expert advise.
Do you guys use lens hood all the time for outdoor photography? Should I start using it all the time too? I never use it for outdoor portrait picture because some kids look at the humongous lens hood & were freaking out. If that will enhance my picture, I will definitely use it again.
Thanks.

 

i shudn't be here then :blushing:

 

I love pictures of kids freaking out. they're the best.

 

yea, i use mine all the time as well - indoors and outdoors.

 

I want to make myself looks like I know what I am doing, so I use the lens hood.

 

I use mine all the time, the notable exception being what I like to call "stealth mode". For any street photography, I use my 50mm (it's short and doesn't draw attention), body, and that's it. Small body, small lens, no hood; people don't take me seriously, and I can get better images like that.

At all other times I use a hood though. It does no harm to your image being there; it can only improve it. Though whenever I have my 24-70mm and the hood on, people keep asking me if I'm a professional.

 

Someone should invent case hoods then to protect cameras from owners who tip tripods over but hey, at least my lens didn't get hurt lol

 

I prefer to use one on my 50mm f/1.8, mainly because its a small lens and the lens hood makes it bigger...but it also protect my lens...not so much bllcoks stray light on the Nikon 50mm (The lens element is recessed a good bit. But the hood doesnt hurt!)

 

I don't have one for every lens, but the ones I do have are on all the time - no matter where I am.

There is no reason not to use a hood...
(Assuming, of course, that you are using the correct hood for the lens.)

 

Except for when there's a reason of course. :greenpbl: (Mainly just when you don't want to scare children, like above, or in my case, when I want to be unassuming. Being tricky is good; sometimes it's great to have people think that you're just an un-skilled amateur who probably doesn't know what buttons to press :lmao: .)

 

Yeah, except for that.

I don't use one with my 100mm macro a lot of times (it just get's in the way).


Optically, there is no reason not to use one though.