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Originally Posted by BonBon  I was shooting about 6:00-6:30pm so the light was good inside I thought. Other pictures shot just fine in the same exact light. But, I'm not sure what my flash setting is on right now. I'll have to check that.
Yes, it appears to me that everything is in focus but the shutter never engages. I did have instances where it would not focus also but that was when I was seeing how close I could get, and once when I was focusing on a gray object. So I'm certain it is focusing on these other shots just not snapping the picture. |
When you say "appears"...do you mean you're shooting in Manual? I'm pretty sure you're not, but thought I'd ask just in case.
The very first thing I'd do is: check to see if you have your "focus indicator" turned on...? This is a beep that tells you "yep, I'm focused and locked in" - so that you don't have to judge if you're focused in on something, the camera tells you when it's focused. NOW, as to whether the camera has focused on the POINT you wanted it to, is another subject (ie, did the lens focus on the eyes, or on the tail...and that's when the human factor has to be involved).
2nd thing: what is closest focus distance of that 35mm? (just so it's in the back of your head)
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Originally Posted by BonBon Ann, I just saw you posted on Pippin's thread. Those are some of the shots I was having problems with. She was sitting in the same spot, I was standing in the same spot.....sometimes the shutter would release and sometimes it wouldn't. The flash never came up and the lighting was the same or close for all of them. And if she moved even the tiniest bit her whole body would be blurred in the picture. |
That makes me think that 1) you may have been even just a CM too close for the lens in some instances (therefore, the shutter could not release) and/or 2) the lens focused, the shutter engaged, but then she moved just a BIT - and the pic was taken....if you had your aperture wide open, say at 1.4/1.8 or something - all she has to do is barely tilt her head a fraction, and she could be out of the field that
was "in focus" when the picture snapped.
Maybe an analogy using space? (depth of field=DOF)
Like, this is your DOF at 1.4 [ ]
And, this is your DOF at 22 [_____________________________________]
So, at f1.4, the subject has this much depth of space [ ] in focus during the shutter release. Very shallow depth of field....therefore, one major area of focus, rest of piccie blurred out (bokeh).
But, at f22, the subject has this much depth of space [_____________________________________] in focus during shutter release. Very wide depth of field....therefore, almost everything in focus, very little blur (think: landscape pictures).
Argh....don't know if that made sense....
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