Christmas Tree Follow up

[SmilesforLife]

Well I read everyone's reply and thank you for your replies..
I did some testing out tonight.. all in MANUAL if you can believe it...
but dont ask me to do it again, b/c I wont know how..lol
Here are the pics and the EXIF info... All SOOC, just sharpened.
Ball one 1/3, F.8, ISO 1600
Bulb-1/30 F1.8 ISO 1600

[SmilesforLife]

Gold Orn- 1/3 F5 ISO 800
Tree with tripod (darker one) F7.1 ISO 1600
Tree 1/50 F2 ISO 1600
Thanks for looking and helping out.

[SmilesforLife]

BTW the 2nd Ball one looks a little out of focus..not sure why?
What is everyone putting Metering mode on...and how often do you change it ?

[PhotosGuy]

Your focus may have shifted before the shot, or maybe it needs a bit more sharpening in PS? You can check the focus point in the EOS Viewer Utility.
Otherwise, they look very nice to me! ;)

I usually shoot on "M", but will set Av to a wide aperature & Tv to a fast shutter speed so, if something happens quickly, it's just a turn of the dial to get the shot.

[SmilesforLife]

Is there a way to look up focus points on EXIF info,, I use OPANDA.
I am really stuck with Metering and focus point settings.

[ssim]

I've never used Opanda but if you open the image in zoombrowser which came with your Canon software and then go to view-show focus points you will be able to see where the camera attained its focus.