Full portrait focusing

[thomaswilliams]

Hi,

I'm having some issues focusing on full length body shots.
It appears in 8/10 shots the face is out of focus, this happened to me yesterday at a shoot and is a massive pain! I was using studio flash and tried different apertures from F8 to F16, different shutter speeds (as fast as the flashes could sync, and i still had the problem.

I have tried manual focusing, and found that help also, but i still feel the focus isn't as sharp as i think they should be.

I have also tried multiple lens, and still get the same problem (the main lens i use is a 24-105 F4.0 L.

I don't have any problems when cropping a bit closer, and taking close up or portrait shots.

Am i making an obvious error and may have missed something? (as i havn't had a huge amount of experience taking these kind of shots) or should i take my camera in to be checked?

Cheers
Tom

[breathless]

Do you have any samples which you can share?

[bobbyz]

Yaa, post some example shots. At f16 it shouldn't matter that much where you focus unless you shooting with >500mm lens.