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How to focus in digital photography – lesson 4 in complete online free photography tutorials of Academy of photography. Christian will teach you the difference in manual focus versus automatic focus in digital photography and explain few tips and tricks on how to focus with your camera. This is the lesson no 4 and you need to follow all our free photography tutorials in order to become a competent photographer in no time
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for more information. if you have any question on how to focus or need to understand when to use manual focus or automatic, this is the place for you. All our series of online photography lessons for beginners are free. make sure you follow all of them and you will learn to control your camera focus and when your camera is out of focus
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26 responses to “how to focus – manual focus versus automatic – lesson 4 free photography tutorials focus photography”

  2. I'm just begging in photography and for whatever reason I found this video to be very distracting and too fast paced where the illustrations, text and explanations are too darn fast to be absorbed into my brain. The staring at the ceiling reading the text and trying to speed read everything (think Evelyn Wood) and then move on to the next explanation, I just had to click off and look elsewhere. It didn't work for me! Thanks anyway for offering your expertise to us for free on YouTube and I'm certain it has helped many. I found the very fast explanation in the beginning with the scribbling and erasing, re-scribbling again then the illustration is gone again to be extremely frustrating and flew over my head so fast I got dizzy even after multiple attempts to rewind the video. I have been a fast learner my entire life and have worked, and excelled in the electrical and technical field of work and again found this video unenjoyable right out of the gate!! There was no one on one, hands on, or any practical feel to this video at all!  I just didn't work for me. I hope my criticism didn't offend anyone!! Maybe it might even help to adjust the format of your videos in the future looking for "beginner" tutorials and courses! Maybe next time when I understand the concepts a little better it might be of some help. Respectfully, thanks again for offering your time and talents!!!  Again I come in peace!!

  3. If all photographers were doing only one kind of photography You could use the center point , in the film days you could use a coarse screen so you could focus any where , some they did not focus they use the aperture range ,it was faster by the way if you closed the aperture when shooting a ring you will focus more of it , i am so thankful of all the focal points please pick one and make it work for you .

  7. There are several factors in focusing. One place I found which successfully combines these is the Magic Focus Plan (google it if you're interested) without a doubt the no.1 plan that I've heard of. look at all the unbelievable information .

  8. many focus points a marketing gimmick? false. ypu can still use your single point focus but having the ability to choose a different focus point other than the center gives you better control of your focus plane. the focus/recompose method works ok, but your focus plane changes as you turn or tilde your camera. with very fast lenses, say 1.4 or even 2.0 or 2.2 this is enough to throw your focus plane off from your intended critical focus point. also, focusing is not only the job of the lens. the lens provides you with physical focus limits and abilities while the camera itself determines the appropriate focus

  12. That previous comment had a lot of typos in it. I basically wanted to say that I appreciate the education that I have learned thus far and I thank you all for taking the time to teach us.

  13. I have enjoyed the information from all the different teachers. They all had something different to say from a different perspective. Wanting to do for talker fee has always been a desire of mine. I'm burning a lot starting out with my iPhone and then we will go from there. Thank you all for the information that you have provided I appreciate it very much.

  17. Having multiple auto-focus points is very useful actually.If you have a very shallow depth of field and you want to focus on something that is not centred in your viewfinder, you can't just focus on it using the central autofocus point then recompose because you will probably not have the camera in the exact position as before.Also, if your subject is moving and you don't want it centred, you're going to have trouble keeping focus if you have to recompose.

  20. Dear Mr. Shudo, (I hope I spelled it correctly)
    Thank you for your informative video.

    What I know about focus, The nearer you are to the subject (point of focus) the narrower depth of field and the farther away you are from the subject the bigger the depth of field. The bigger aperture size (ie f stop number f1.8, f2.8 etc) the shallower the depth of field becomes and the narrower the aperture (ie f stop number f11 or above) the bigger the depth of field.  

    Example, at f1.8, with a distance to focus point of 2 meters there should be a shallow depth of field, whilst at the same f1.8 with a distance to focus point of 50 meters the depth of field should increase.
    Furthermore if the distance to focus point remains constant (lets say around 10meters) an fstop of f1.8 should have a shallower depth of field compared to an fstop of f8 which will have a longer depth of field. 

    Focus point is an option whether to which part is chosen to be the point of focus, the foreground or the background or somewhere in the middle. Choosing to have a narrow depth of field or a larger depth of field is a matter of personal preference and the situation of the picture.  

    Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Been shooting with a point and shoot for several years, just recently changed to an SLR camera.

    Regards,
    Zakwan
    Photography as a hobby,
    Malaysia

    p.s: I'm shooting with D3300, kit lens 18-55mm

  21. Hi, maybe my question not about the video, but i have a problem. When i do manual focus,i turn ring manually and  i press half shutter butten and i see middle focus point flickering for example on the eye of my friend,thats why i think that eye is on focus, but when i take a photo then i see that eye is out focus , although middle little red point was on the eye.why this happens? ( Canon 60D + 50mm 1.8 ) sorry for my bad english

  25. From a recent blog, I read Canon's AF areas overlap markedly onto adjacent AF point positions. It seems focus errors can occur more if one fails to use the central AF point. Older cameras & lenses also gave much less accurate AF results when tested. Hence Christian's technique of using central AF point selection then recomposition would seem to offer the most accurate AF results on all Canon cameras.

  26. Please. I have problems with manual focusing on distant objects – especially in darker conditions and wide open lenses [f/1.4 etc.]. When i focusing via viewfinder, the object is too small and i dont realy see if the focus is accurate. Is here any solution to improve this focusing technic ? Or some tip, how to see better on the dark object ? Thanks…

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