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The shot i'm going to take is gonna be of Reece,
coming down by these pillars on your skate board, i want the pillars on the left
hand side of the picture, nice and strong and powerful and anchored.
I want Reece about here to give it all that
along the side so to do it , i'm gonna chose
continuous focus mode that means the camera
will lock onto Reece and will continuously adjust
the focus as he comes towards me and closes the gap
the camera will manage that for me beautifully in order the camera knows
where in the view finder Reece is,
I'm gonna use the dynamic area, that means i can choose the point in the
viewfinder were I want the camera to concentrate it's focus
and it will use the little cluster of points around. Now Reece is just here,
let's reverse it.
he's on the right hand side of the shop,
so let's move the little gun site around and put it to the right hand side
and i'm gonna go about a third of the way up because he's probably going to be
a little bit crouched like that.
All I've gotta do now is keep that gun site on reece,
the camera will then track the focus, reece will stay in focus and because i
have pre composed my shots that I'm gonna do now,
Let's get in here, all i have to do is keep the dot on reece and the camera
and everything else will look after itself.
So compose the shot, i like these little bell bits at the bottom.
I'm now locked onto Reece, go for it reece.
here it comes, right button down.
You're shooting shots and as he comes in closer, great thanks reece.
Top job mate. Let's have a little look.
Great shots, we've got a great sequence of reece
coming closer and closer to the camera and the camera has taken care of all the
focus needs
to make sure that he's sharp, all I've had to do is hold that dot on him.
This how you can start to combine these modes together
in order to get the shot you want. You've just gotta stop for a minute and think, what am i
doing here?
It's no good running around scatter brain, trying to do it as you see a situation.
Think how you're gonna set the situation up and then set the camera
accordingly and then do it.
Finally all we have is manual, now manual focus mode means that it's you,
who is controlling where depth wise you're focusing into the picture
by rotating the focus ring of your lens and that's really about all there is to
it
very very useful if you're doing a close up of a plant or something like that,
You just gotta fine tweak it, as you turn that you'll see it happening
in the viewfinder but the only other time you might need manual is
if you're photographing a very low contrast subject like woodland on a
misty day something like that because it is low contrast
your camera can often not find anything to lock onto
if I point this at the sky there's a fair chance it'll hunt in and out
it won't be able, there you go it did it, it wont find something
to focus on think it, flick it onto manual and do it yourself.
Now i know you all hate picking up your books and looking stuff up and reading it
but really you gonna have to because all cameras do this differently
check out auto focus modes in the book, find out which switches
let you do this what's the film again and then go out and practice practice
practice
once you've got your head around how to control these modes you can really start
to put the focus where you want to in your pictures