On Nov 10, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> Took my K-5 with my new [used] DA 50-200/4-5.6 ED WR lens to the state > cross-country championship yesterday. I’m over my hang-up about getting > manual focus down before thinking about autofocus. The results were mixed > because autofocus is auto only so far. There are still things to be learned, > technique to be develop. E.g., I can see that in some of the images the > subject is not sharp while the background is. I will be learning about where > the camera focuses and paying more attention to what I have it focus on. > > The light was perfect. I was able to shoot at 400 and didn’t have any noise > to correct for. Most of my processing was cropping to put the subject more > clearly in the frame. > > This is the gallery I put up for the team I’ve been following. Nothing great > and some not very good, but a great improvement for me with this subject > matter. Comments more than welcome. > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/eeweir/10781314504/in/set-72157637520908245> One should try to avoid being hung up on technical things. I like to manual focus a lot, often much more than AF, but if I've got a good AF system that does what I want, I use it. So what I find is that I want fast responsive focus, and whether it's manual or auto focus is less important than getting the focus right and being quick and responsive. Sometimes manual is the only way to get that, but with most modern cameras a good AF system can get there for a lot of situations very nicely. This is a good set of photos, a bit more than I can step through and comment on individually. Overall, they seem a little flat and dullish - perhaps just a little bit of tweaking will solve that, they don't need much. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
