Hi All,
I noticed some problems with some of the pictures I have been taking, the other day I was at an event and I thought, it makes sense for me to practice my photography skills once more. Now, most of my problems stem from the fact that most of my subjects do not come out sharp in photos, I learnt in the last 4 years one should focus on the eyes etc, that's fine if its one person, but my problem gets worse when taking a group of people, I find that most of the time only one person comes out focused well.
This particular occasion was well lit with ambient light, I still had my flash on though, although pointing upwards.
I will place comments by each of the photos and please let me know what I ought to be doing better. I learnt on this forum that one can change the AF focus points etc, and I do that, but I usually set it to auto, as the manual one is a single red dot and when taking a group photo, who do you focus the red dot on ? So with the auto, when pressing the shutter button half way, the focus point changes, so I press a couple of times until the focus points covers a wider range i.e my subjects near their faces. Is this a flaw or am I doing something incorrectly ?
Thanks in advance.
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This was taking with a SLR, however a similar picture with a Samsung S5 phone was better. I know I was backing light, but yet the pictures were not well exposed. Using a lower f stop would blow out the skies, what I wanted was to blur out the Brighton domes, and yet make an impression that the picture was taken in Brighton.
This was taken with a Samsung S5 phone
I feel only the subject on the left was well focused on.
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Again the subjects to the left and right are not well focused.
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Only the Male is well exposed.
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Only the baby looks sharp.
