BLOG QUESTION ADV: TIPS FOR BETTER FOCUS

1. Pick three of these techniques and summarize them. What does each technique demonstrate? What does it add to the shot?
2. Which techniques could you start using right away? Why?

When focus pulling, start by focusing on the closest subject to you and then focus pulling to the farther subject. This is because objects further away from the lens have a bigger focus area, meaning that it's easier to focus on them and leads to less chance of error. When you're trying to focus on a moving object, you must be aware of the physical distance between them and your lens, as well as what effect turning the focus ring left (if you're getting to far from the subject) or right (if you're getting too close to the subject) has on the image. You want to maintain the same amount of distance throughout the movement. Lastly, you can use pieces of tape on your camera to mark the focus points for each subject in frame, allowing you to do controlled focus pulling. I can use all of these techniques right away since they're eitehr basic habits that I need to fix or something I can implement to the camera very quickly.