focusing points?

when taking pics of people I know that the focus point should be on the eye closet to the camera. Usually I have the focus point locked in the center, autofocus and then move the camera to what I want the pic to look like. Am I doing this right? Or should I be moving the focus point around in the viewfinder?

sma1mom wrote in post #5303766
when taking pics of people I know that the focus point should be on the eye closet to the camera. Usually I have the focus point locked in the center, autofocus and then move the camera to what I want the pic to look like. Am I doing this right? Or should I be moving the focus point around in the viewfinder?

What you are doing usually works fine down to ~f/4 or f/2.8 depending on subject distance and focal length. When shooting really thin DOF with wide apertures it will yield noticeable focus error.

In those cases move the focus point to the one nearest the eye and try not to recompose.

i would say, move your focus point in the VF

^^ What he said. I generally always manually choose my focus point and minimize recomposition no matter what the aperture.

It also depends. Sometimes you need speed is more important than accuracy. If changing focus points will lead to you losing a shot i suggest using whatever's faster