flash and focus problem, that I would like to understand

[theflyingkiwi]

I was talking some photos of my mother tonight. I had the camera on AV, the inbult flash was up and ready to be used. the camera was set to auto focus. The lense that I used was the 50 F1.8.

and the result.

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~markpc/IMG_6356.jpg

If you require more information about the image, save and check the exif info.

As you can see the image is out of focus, and I don't understand why. the camera had reported focus as I pressed down the shutter button.

Please no comments how I need to get a better flash, like the 550ex, as I already know this, can at this point I have no real need to get one. since I had the camera, this is the only time I really needed a flash in use of taking photos of a person.

anyway thanks for any help on this topic.

[RichardtheSane]

Does it do this every time?
Did you take more than one shot?
What did you focus on?

[theflyingkiwi]

Does it do this every time?
I am not to sure, this is the first time that I had used the flash, with this lens to take a photo of someone. the other times it is normaly during the day with plenty of light.

Did you take more than one shot?
Yes, I had taken about 45 photos, unless I had the camera set in "p", or did a manual foucs most of the shots came out like this. I did notice that when I did have the camera set in "p" the camera had chossen F4, where I had set the camera to F2.

What did you focus on?
I had focused on the face, the image that I had post is the image resized only. I guess I should have said that in the orignal post, :oops: :lol:

I guess the problem is I am not understanding what the camera is trying to do. :oops: or what I am trying to tell the camera what to do :?

does this help