Portrait Lense Question

[aquamarine]

I have been asked by a couple friends to do some boudoire/fun modeling photos inside of a house. Now what I have for lenses are as follows...

Pentax brand kit lense (15-55 3.5-5.6)
Pentax brand 10-17 Fish-eye (3.5-4.5)
Sigma brand 70-300 (4-5.6)
Pentax brand FA 50mm F1.4

Would the 15-55, 10-17 (at 17mm), or the 50mm be well suited to this? The photos are going to be shot throughout the house, in the living room, bedroom, basement, etc. I'm just wondering if there are any other lenses that I should be considering for this?

[FiveFreshFish]

A 105 mm focal length is best for portraits. For other shots, it looks like you have range covered.

[benyl]

80-100mm is best.

wide angle makes your schnoze look big. telephoto flattens your face.

80-100mm help you look 'pretty' in pictures.

[aquamarine]

Wonderful! I'll stop and find one tomorrow Thanks you two!!

[ex1z7]

80 /after/ crop looks good IMO, so the Pentax 50 gets my vote.

the two "portrait" lenses I use at 50 1.8 and 85 1.8 - though the range I found SO useful when I shot a previous wedding was 50-150.

Mmm.. 50-150 2.8 Sigma HSM..

[aquamarine]

more wonderful advice from ex! Thanks! I am house sitting a mansion for a couple months and this is a prime place for some modeling so that is more the kind that we will be doing; up the spiral stair case, in the antique style kitchen, and the master bedroom. If that helps with a better suggestion then let me know. Thanks again!!

[AccentAE86]

80mm on a crop camera... you will need a LOT of room, unless you only want to take headshots.

The more room the better. Use the highest focal length you can, but not even many pro studio shooters have studios large enough to get a full body shot at 85mm on a cropped body.

I have found on lenses designed for crops, around 50mm is very acceptable for portraits. But you're gonna probably need something in the 20-35mm area if you want anything that isn't tight in.

I'd say you are already equipped for boudoir. Many studio shooters shoot around F/8, and all your lenses will look good at F/8. I use a super cheap $100 canon 75-300 for headshots, it does a superb job at f/8.

[aquamarine]

Excellent. Well I'll see what I can do with the fish-eye at the maximum zoom (which still gives a nice wide-angle without distortion) and play around a bit with my 50mm 1.4 and see where I can get.

[qrankz]

Use the 50mm 1.4 for the portraits. You want fast shutter speeds and sharp images and good bokeh for those types of photos.