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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 371963" data-attributes="member: 9240">Not all habits that yield good results are good habits.  As a young musician I ignored some of the strong recommendations of my teachers regarding correcting bad left hand position (specifically thumb placement) on the guitar, primarily because I was more comfortable with the position my hand was in, and it posed no limitation to allowing me to play the things I was playing (likely the reason the teachers didn't persist in trying to get me to change it).  Then, one day, I hit the wall where my left-hand technique prevented me from being able to execute a particular passage, or play a certain style.  I had a choice - fix what was broken or bust my ass to try and figure out how to play it with bad technique.We all run into them.  It's why top tier pro golfers hire a swing coach and spend a year relearning their swing - because there's a hitch in their giddy-up and if they want to get better they need to break what they know and relearn.  The other choice is just staying where they're at and learning to be OK with not getting better.There's nothing wrong with recomposing the way I do, and the way I have.  Thousands of successful photographers do it.  But as I read articles by photographers who talk about using focus points the way they were intended I find benefits that can certainly be applied to the type of photography I love to shoot.  Put a wild bird in a tree and they're not likely to wait while you grab them with the middle focus point and recompose so you get a nicely framed shot - they're flying away while you're recomposing and you wind up squeezing the trigger with both the camera AND the bird moving.  Blown shot.  There's a pair of kids with an ice cream cone and it's about to be empty with the ice cream on the ground, and with my technique I'm either going to get a poorly framed shot that needs to be fixed in post, or I'll miss another shot while reframing.  So, I set my mind on trying another method and integrating it into my shooting to hopefully allow me to improve my photography - or at least improve my ratio of keepers to missed shots.To your specific question, it is not bad form.  I've watch great portrait photographers do it all the time during presentations, and they talk about precisely how to recompose when they've locked in with an 85mm f1.4 because that focal plane is so razor thin that improper recomposition means you no longer have the eye but instead have the cheek in focus.  But only relying on that technique means you've limited yourself elsewhere, and that is what I'm trying to fix.</blockquote>

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