do you shoot in in autofocus or manual focus??

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I am quite inetrested in knowing what lens people use and what sort of focusing they are using.ive come to the point where i have taken over 100 photo pics of me and family photos and i am on the pc about to start processing all these raw files and something pees me of.when i take photos of people (and i currently use autofocus for photos)some peoples faces are in focus while others are not. Now they are standing next to each other may be a couple of inches in front or behind.so i am just wanting to know do you guys shoot manual as it seems like i have to but my camera is not really designed to be used in manual focus really.

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I shoot both it depends what in need for the time I'm shooting, TBH it sounds like you may have a user error for the situation you describe care to post an example of the issue you having?
 
Autofocus if out and about working fast... manual focus with live view in the studio.. or doing slow stuff like landscape etc.
 
ok let me narrow the question down a bit more .When you shoot photos of people e.g. family photo...do you use autofocus and the special tool where it detects faces of people?my camera recognises faces of people fine WHEN they are looking at the camera but if they look away it dosent detect their face so it dosent facuses that much onthe face.
 
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ok let me narrow the question down a bit more .When you shoot photos of people e.g. family photo...do you use autofocus and the special tool where it detects faces of people?my camera recognises faces of people fine WHEN they are looking at the camera but if they look away it dosent detect their face so it dosent facuses that much onthe face.
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Can you not detect there face with your own eyes? And the just use a single AF point?
 
Sounds like you might be shooting wide open. What apertures are you using here?
 
You're having depth of field issues. It won't matter how you set the focus, the depth of field will still be same. Face detect is a gimmick, never found use for it on any camera I've had with it enabled.
 
I think you need to do some learning on depth of field and aperture.

If someone is even a few inches in front or behind, then at a wide aperture the depth of field won't be large enough to get them both in focus.

The narrower the aperture , the more will be in focus. Anywhere between f/5.6 and f/11 depending on the distance from subject, the distance between subjects and the type of lens used.
 
I agree. I think you might need to step back a bit and shoot with a more mid-range aperture. Try f/8 or f/11 and see if that improves things.
 
snipershooter said:
ok let me narrow the question down a bit more .When you shoot photos of people e.g. family photo...do you use autofocus and the special tool where it detects faces of people?
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I use AF in those situations, yes, but I use a single AF point, and certainly not any face recognition.
 
I rarely use manual as my eye sight is not that sharp. I trust the camera to be more accurate than my mark one eyeball.

The only time I shoot manual is macro photography.
 
Both. I use DMF more than any other focussing mode. On my Sony it AF's at the selected point, then when its got a lock it disengages the AF and shows me what's in focus using "focus peaking". I then fine tune it manually before taking the shot.

Obviously not much use when tracking fast action, but its brilliant for posed portraits, macro and the like.
 
snipershooter said:
I am quite inetrested in knowing what lens people use and what sort of focusing they are using.ive come to the point where i have taken over 100 photo pics of me and family photos and i am on the pc about to start processing all these raw files and something pees me of.when i take photos of people (and i currently use autofocus for photos)some peoples faces are in focus while others are not. Now they are standing next to each other may be a couple of inches in front or behind.so i am just wanting to know do you guys shoot manual as it seems like i have to but my camera is not really designed to be used in manual focus really.

THANKS
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It sound to me like you may be dealing with a depth of field issue rather than a focus issue. Very easy to test for, just close down your lens to around f11 or so and see if the problem goes away or is not as bad. If so dof is the issue.
 
I'm not a fan of shallow DoF portraits for exactly this reason. I would rather have the whole face in focus than the tips of the closest eye's lashes!

I've used face detection once since I've had it available and that was purely to see if it could be used as a trap snapper (capture someone as they enter a room etc - it can).
 
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