Eric the focus seemed fine for the most part. May I suggest you think
about about varying angles and levels. Some of those shots would be more
effective if you were at the same level or lower than your subjects.
The best shot here for me was the one where you were shooting downhill
at a group of runners. I missed a chance to shoot at a cross-country
meet locally & your photos make me regret not being there.
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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 13:58:50 -0500
From: Eric Weir<[email protected]>
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]>
Subject: I'm over my hang-up on manual focus
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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>
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
[email protected]
"It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in
each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits."
- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
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