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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 521078" data-attributes="member: 6277">What focus mode are you using?  There are a lot of different modes and some are just for very specific scenes.  Make sure you are using the correct one for for how you are shooting. Also when you are using BBF it should be set of AF-C. So when you are focusing on a stationary object you will focus and then release and the recompose and shoot.  I personally use the single spot focus and then I can pick the object that I want to make sure it is focus the best. I had a problem with my wife's shots being out of focus 2/3s of the time with her D7000. She does not use BBF so it is the half press method.  Every time I would check to see what the problem was with focus it would be perfect. I finally figured out that when she would take a photo whe would just look through the viewfinder and push the button all the way down without giving the camera time to focus. One other thing you might want to check is your shutter speed.  The best way to use the reciprocal rule is that the shutter speed of your camera should be at least the reciprocal of the effective focal length of the lens. You will need to modify that a little since you use a DX camera.  With the DX camera you need to change that to 1.5 or even twice the shutter speed.  say you are using a 50mm lens then you would need to use at least 1/75th sec or as close to that as possible.  Bot sure about the D3300 but many of the DSLRs have Minimum Shutter speeds that can be set under the AUTO ISO settings,  Some have only the speed but a few of the newer ones have a AUTO setting under minimum shutter speed. If yours has that I would suggest that you use it.</blockquote>

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