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03-22-2018, 04:02 PM #1
People and pets together
When you take a portrait of a dog and its human, where is your focal point? I am using single point focusing and usually focus on the dog's eyes, however, would it be better to focus on the person's eyes? What about when you have multiple subjects in a shot, where do you focus? I always try and get them on the same plane and stop down the aperture when appropriate but just wondering what others might do. Thanks!
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03-22-2018, 06:26 PM #2Re: People and pets together
I'll preface this by saying Face Detection is a wonderful thing. Enable it if your camera body supports it.
To answer your question more directly, assuming both dog and handler are of equal importance in the shot, I would put my focus on the nearer or the two subjects and let depth of field handle the rest. I can envision wanting to use a shallow DoF to emphasize one over the other, however, depending on the type of shot I'm after. For instance I might focus one way for a standard, "This is Bob and his awesome dog Fido" type of shot, and a different way entirely if I was shooting a shelter dog portrait who's handler needs to be in the shot.~ Paul
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03-22-2018, 11:22 PM #3Re: People and pets together
Thanks Paul, that makes sense focusing on the front person/dog and using aperture to get the rest in focus. With face detection, which my D810 does have I am assuming that it would show preference to the person/people in the shot and you would again have to use DOF to get the pet.
03-22-2018, 11:32 PM #4Re: People and pets together
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