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Focus lock on your camera

Focus lock on your camera

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Focus lock on your camera

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- Most mirrorless and SLR and some advanced point-and-shoot cameras these days, have something on them called a focus lock button or auto-focus lock, you'll see it as AFL. A lot of people ignore this and it's a really handy function for certain types of shooting. I'm here in this really colorful spot today, just shooting a lot of abstract stuff. Which means I'm usually focusing to a particular distance and taking a whole bunch of shots. I'm focusing to a particular distance because I'm typically working on a plane somewhere and I'm taking bunches of shots, because I'm trying lots of different compositional ideas. If I focus normally and have to re-auto-focus every time, it slows me down. And if the focus point falls onto another plane, it all gets messed up. So what I've been doing is framing up a shot, focusing, hitting my auto-focus lock button and then I can just shoot as much as I want. I can reframe, I can tilt the…

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