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Move your focus points

Move your focus points

- Auto focus is one of the most complicated features of your camera, one of the most helpful as well. But I find a lot of photographers are not really making the most of auto focus, in particular, on finding that a lot of photographers are using a center focus point and then reframing, rather than moving a focus point so here, I'm on the backstreets of lower Manhattan, I found this interesting brick wall and I want to capture a photograph focusing on this corner of this little shelf of brick, but then I'm going to reframe. So if I'm focusing with a center focus point, that would look something like this. Setting my focus and then, reframing the scenes so that I have some of the background in the frame. That's not the most efficient thing, now with a static subject like this, it's not such a big challenge, I can focus and recompose without too much difficulty. But when it's a moving subject, this becomes an even bigger issue. My recommendation is to get in the habit of moving your…

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