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<blockquote data-quote="gohan2091" data-source="post: 272291" data-attributes="member: 11990">Hi all,I shot a male yesterday (mainly head and shoulders) at riverside and a lot of my photos are soft. Luckily I took multiple shots of the same pose so I have some useable photos but I need to avoid this in the future. I used a Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM on a D7100. I selected this lens because I wanted to blur out the background greatly and isolate the subject. Due to the long focal length, I had to step back a fair bit to fit the subject in. I often used the focus and recompose technique (yes, I did move the focus points around with the d-pad but the composition wasn't exactly right when I wanted to place a point on the subjects eye). I believe this is the most likely cause of the problem. My question is, was the 105mm the wrong choice? Should I have gotten closer and used the 50mm 1.8G? or would this make the problem worse? How do you shoot a portrait at wide open apertures while focusing on the eye and maintaining the composition (and keeping things sharp? )Thanks in advance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gohan2091, post: 272291, member: 11990"] Hi all, I shot a male yesterday (mainly head and shoulders) at riverside and a lot of my photos are soft. Luckily I took multiple shots of the same pose so I have some useable photos but I need to avoid this in the future. I used a Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM on a D7100. I selected this lens because I wanted to blur out the background greatly and isolate the subject. Due to the long focal length, I had to step back a fair bit to fit the subject in. I often used the focus and recompose technique (yes, I did move the focus points around with the d-pad but the composition wasn't exactly right when I wanted to place a point on the subjects eye). I believe this is the most likely cause of the problem. My question is, was the 105mm the wrong choice? Should I have gotten closer and used the 50mm 1.8G? or would this make the problem worse? How do you shoot a portrait at wide open apertures while focusing on the eye and maintaining the composition (and keeping things sharp? ) Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]

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