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Nailing Focus

9/10/2019

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The number one reason why images fail, is focus (possibly it’s a tie between that and poor composition, but even the latter can be excused by some as art 😉). There’s that gut twisting realisation when you are going through the images from a shoot only to realise that the focus was out. What could have been fantastic, gets added to the trash pile. We now have blistering fast auto focus, face detection, dynamic tracking, 3D tracking, a gazillion focus points, micro-tuning (automatically calibrated on some cameras even) and more. You’d think that it would be as simple as pressing a button and shooting. But it’s not. Although we can get passably sharp results almost every shot, we still miss critical focus from time to time (if not more occasionally) and it is mind-numbingly frustrating!

There are a number of things we can do to try and improve focus when we are shooting, whether it’s shooting a landscape, a moving animal, or a close-up. I personally feel that correcting focus falls under these three broad categories of; Calibration, Settings and Technique.


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  • Home
  • Photography Courses
    • Mini Courses & Classes
    • Photography Mentoring
  • Photography Tours & Workshops
    • South Africa >
      • 4 day Swartberg Mountain Retreat
      • 5 day The Waves of Luphathana
      • 9 day Wandering the Wild Coast - South Africa
      • Drakensberg >
        • 5 day Hunters of Light Mountain Landscape Photography - Drakensberg Mountains
        • 5 day Mountain Adventure - Drakensberg Mountains
    • Africa Workshops >
      • Uganda Private Wildlife Photography workshop
      • Morocco - Meandering Morocco - 10 Nights
      • Botswana - Photographing Giants - Botswana 5 night astrophotography workshop
      • Lesotho - Expoloring The Mountain Kingdom - 6 night Landscape Workshop
      • Namibia - Namibia's North - 13 Nights
      • Namibia - Composing the Dunes - 14 Days
      • Madagascar - Exploring the Island Continent - 15 Days
    • Europe & the North >
      • 6 day Chasing Reindeer - An Ethnographic Photography Workshop
      • Chasing Auroras - Iceland Late Winter
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    • Leofoto Tripod Heads
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    • NiSi JetMag Filter system
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    • NiSi Close Up Lens Kit NC 77mm
    • NiSi Drone Filters
    • F-Stop Questionnaire
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