Manually selecting a focus point

When you look at a scene, you usually take it for granted that out of the whole…vast view that you can perceive you automatically choose one place to focus on.…Your camera's Auto-Focus mechanism has to do the same thing. It needs to…focus at one particular distance in your scene, ideally, you want that distance…to be on your subject.…Your camera includes a number of focus points spread around its field of view.…By default, it automatically tries to identify which one of those points is…sitting on the subject of your scene.…But there will be times when you'll need to override that automatic…mechanism because it will have chosen the wrong point, and so you'll need to…manually choose the focus point yourself to force the camera to focus to a particular place.…

If you don't understand all this focus point stuff, check out Foundations of Photography:…Exposure.…This button right here lets you select a focus point.…This is meant to look like a viewfinder display with a bunch of little…focus points in it.…