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How To Get Better Control of Autofocus

October 27, 2009 by Steve Berardi 9 Comments

IMG_0482cSometimes autofocus can be really annoying. For some shots it’ll focus on the right part of your subject, but then the very next shot it may choose to focus on something far and away into the background.

In a previous post, I shared a few ways to avoid problems like this, but I just found a new solution that I like a lot better: back-button autofocusing.

Here’s how it works:

Normally, your camera will auto focus when you press the shutter button halfway, but with back-button autofocusing, you have to press a button on the back of the camera instead, giving you complete control of when autofocus is initiated. [Read more…] about How To Get Better Control of Autofocus

Filed Under: Landscapes, Tips, Wildflowers, Wildlife Tagged With: a i servo mode, ai servo, auto, autofocus, back button, birds, control, focus, focusing, Landscapes, manual focus, nature photography, plane of focus, problems, Tips, wildflowers, Wildlife

How to avoid autofocus problems

April 12, 2009 by Steve Berardi 5 Comments

lockfocusSometimes autofocus can really be annoying. For some shots it’ll focus on the right part of your subject, but then the very next shot it may choose to focus on something far and away into the background.

Sure, you could avoid this problem by always using manual focus, but autofocus is great when you need to focus quickly or when you’re photographing a landscape and you need to focus on a certain spot in the scene (this isn’t always easy to do with manual focus).

So, here are two ways to lock your focus and prevent your camera from autofocusing on the wrong part of your subject: [Read more…] about How to avoid autofocus problems

Filed Under: Landscapes, Tips Tagged With: af, af point, autofocus, focusing camera, landscape, lock focus, manual focus, mf, nature photography, photography

7 Tips for getting sharper photographs

January 25, 2009 by Steve Berardi 17 Comments

Tidy Tips / Photo by Steve Berardi
Tidy Tips / Photo by Steve Berardi

There’s no single trick to getting super sharp photographs. But, when you combine a bunch of little tricks, you’ll begin to notice some big changes in sharpness. So, here are seven little things you can do to inch your way towards sharper images:
[Read more…] about 7 Tips for getting sharper photographs

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: manual focus, mirror lockup, nature photography, remote, sharp lenses, sharp photographs, sharper photos, sweet spot, tack sharp, timer, tripod

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