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Hi everyone,
My name is Sarah and I am totally new to this forum. This is my first proper post.
After months of talking about it, I've recently purchased my first ever DSLR, a Canon 650d with an EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens. (It's the lens that came with the camera)
I bought the camera to mainly take some good quality photos of my 9 month old son. I've been doing as much research as I can about f stops, ISO, depth of field etc and I'll admit it's all very overwhelming but I'm really enjoying learning.
So apologies if this question sounds really stupid.
Basically I've been taking some pictures of my son in both portrait mode and also manually setting the camera to a shallow depth of field. The thing is even though the pictures are far better than my previous point and shoot camera, he is still not totally in focus.
Is this because my lens only goes down to f3.5 or is there another reason that I don't know about.
Please forgive me as I'm so new to all this and hope my question isn't really dumb!
Thanks in advance for your help
Sarah
My name is Sarah and I am totally new to this forum. This is my first proper post.
After months of talking about it, I've recently purchased my first ever DSLR, a Canon 650d with an EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens. (It's the lens that came with the camera)
I bought the camera to mainly take some good quality photos of my 9 month old son. I've been doing as much research as I can about f stops, ISO, depth of field etc and I'll admit it's all very overwhelming but I'm really enjoying learning.
So apologies if this question sounds really stupid.
Basically I've been taking some pictures of my son in both portrait mode and also manually setting the camera to a shallow depth of field. The thing is even though the pictures are far better than my previous point and shoot camera, he is still not totally in focus.
Is this because my lens only goes down to f3.5 or is there another reason that I don't know about.
Please forgive me as I'm so new to all this and hope my question isn't really dumb!
Thanks in advance for your help
Sarah