Recently I read a blog-post by Ashely Ann, one of my favorites, about auto-focusing her camera. Read about it here, it is super helpful.
The first 5 months with my camera, I refused to ever use auto-focus. I would manual focus everything. Well, camp rolled around, and a vacation, and I realized it is much quicker to auto-focus. Sometimes it doesn't do a great job, and sometimes the auto-focus goes crazy on you when you are trying to take a picture.
I haven't decided if I am keeping the back-focus as my default auto-focus yet [what Ashley Ann's blog post was about]. It is nice, because you don't get the back and forth focusing when you're close to something. In the picture above, you can tell I had the AF on point selection to the far right instead of throughout the shot. I also had it on F1.8, which I am horrible when it comes to remembering to change it for pictures where I want a lot in focus. I tend to stick with one thing...manual setting, F1.8, and just changing the ISO & shutter speed. I need to expand my horizons.
In the sunflower ones below, you can tell where the point-selection was focused (way more obvious)
I just discovered some of the fun controls in my iphoto editing. I am torn between keeping the pictures as they are, or touching them up. Does anyone know whether or not it messes with the quality if you play with the color? I'm really liking the black & white option with color boost (first sunflower pic)
Today after our old-roommate reunion at First Watch in NKY (photo above), I headed up to Kenwood to check out lenses at a Ritz Camera. I think I found one I like. Does anyone know anything about the quality of Tamron lenses? It is a wide-angle lens and a zoom lens all in one. Those were the two lenses I have had my eye on recently, so if I can get them in one package, it would be perfect and cheaper.
Advice welcome!
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