Even with 50/1.4 or 135/2.0 wide open I find focus/recompose quite doable. It's much quicker for me than selecting another focal point. I'm usually aiming to get the eye in focus, the trick is in your stance and simply rotating the camera slightly without moving it forwards/backwards.
Even with 50/1.4 or 135/2.0 wide open I find focus/recompose quite doable. It's much quicker for me than selecting another focal point. I'm usually aiming to get the eye in focus, the trick is in your stance and simply rotating the camera slightly without moving it forwards/backwards.
I tried that and was still rubbish at it :giggle I find it much easier - and more reliable - to switch AF points, especially with the choices the 7d gives me. Classic example of finding what works and sticking with it!! Potayto, potahto and all that
I'm coming to the conclusion I'm just a really bad hand-holder; I'm not good at very low shutter speeds, either I'd rather overshoot and cull than use a tripod for portrait shoots, though - I find it very limiting not to be able to move around and re-frame on the fly.
Here is an example of the kind of image that is hard to focus. I had perhaps 4 inches worth of usable DoF, but the parallax for focus and recompose is considerably more than that.
35mm @ f/1.8 1/60s ISO 1000 Canon 5D mk1
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I tried that and was still rubbish at it :giggle I find it much easier - and more reliable - to switch AF points, especially with the choices the 7d gives me. Classic example of finding what works and sticking with it!! Potayto, potahto and all that
I'm coming to the conclusion I'm just a really bad hand-holder; I'm not good at very low shutter speeds, either
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35mm @ f/1.8 1/60s ISO 1000 Canon 5D mk1