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Autofoucs fast moving subjects - great advice!
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<blockquote data-quote="Hyogen" data-source="post: 139498" data-attributes="member: 12676"><p>Does any one have any further improvements to this method? I took a bunch of shots of a small dog running towards me and the shots mostly back focused a little bit.... Perhaps all. I had to sharpen quite a bit to make the dog look in focus.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The dog wasn't super super fast either...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Maybe because I was using the 85mm 1.8 af (pre-D lens)?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Perhaps my 50mm 1.8g would be better? Or stop down to get greater DoF?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hmm i didn't realize d39 was single point. The thing is I feel like I back focused every single shot..... Like 30+ shots... I kept running away from the little dog. I have the focus tracking to OFF so it hunts constantly....</p><p></p><p></p><p>Here's one of the few that were almost in focus -- had to sharpen / add clarity a lot to make it look like this. I used the selective brush also:</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyogen82/8619988428/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8540/8619988428_547b426236_c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyogen82/8619988428/" target="_blank">_HYO0198-4</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/hyogen82/" target="_blank">HYOFOTO : Justin Lee Photography</a>, on Flickr</p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq6/dochyo/hyofoto/_HYO0172.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> - the dog isn't running very fast in this one, so this one was probably spot on. </p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq6/dochyo/hyofoto/_HYO0154.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> - I actually erased a rear leg in photoshop for this one <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> </p><p></p><p></p><p>As you can see, the dog is really small and not very quick. I pretty much HELD the AF-L/AE-L button and kept him in the center as he was running towards me......and kept shooting. Having focus tracking ON would have made it even worse, right? backfocus even more since it's focusing where the dog was a second ago. </p><p></p><p></p><p>These 3 were the best out of maybe 50 shots.... And they were not perfect as is. You could tell the focus was off, so I selectively enhanced the eyes especially.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hyogen, post: 139498, member: 12676"] Does any one have any further improvements to this method? I took a bunch of shots of a small dog running towards me and the shots mostly back focused a little bit.... Perhaps all. I had to sharpen quite a bit to make the dog look in focus. The dog wasn't super super fast either... Maybe because I was using the 85mm 1.8 af (pre-D lens)? Perhaps my 50mm 1.8g would be better? Or stop down to get greater DoF? Hmm i didn't realize d39 was single point. The thing is I feel like I back focused every single shot..... Like 30+ shots... I kept running away from the little dog. I have the focus tracking to OFF so it hunts constantly.... Here's one of the few that were almost in focus -- had to sharpen / add clarity a lot to make it look like this. I used the selective brush also: [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyogen82/8619988428/][img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8540/8619988428_547b426236_c.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyogen82/8619988428/]_HYO0198-4[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/hyogen82/]HYOFOTO : Justin Lee Photography[/url], on Flickr [IMG]http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq6/dochyo/hyofoto/_HYO0172.jpg[/IMG] - the dog isn't running very fast in this one, so this one was probably spot on. [IMG]http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq6/dochyo/hyofoto/_HYO0154.jpg[/IMG] - I actually erased a rear leg in photoshop for this one :D As you can see, the dog is really small and not very quick. I pretty much HELD the AF-L/AE-L button and kept him in the center as he was running towards me......and kept shooting. Having focus tracking ON would have made it even worse, right? backfocus even more since it's focusing where the dog was a second ago. These 3 were the best out of maybe 50 shots.... And they were not perfect as is. You could tell the focus was off, so I selectively enhanced the eyes especially. [/QUOTE]
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