I am an amateur photographer. My biggest problem is focus. To the naked eye, the photos look fine but I know they should be sharper. Any tips?

Cynthia, it's really an excellent question. Focus is definitely one of the hardest things to learn to see, whether it was slide film or today in digital. The main thing that I do and I recommend is kind of expensive is making the 24 by 30 prints because that's going to show all the good things you're photographing, all the bad things, which includes focus. Now you can simulate that 24 by 30 in Photoshop by [INAUDIBLE] that image up. And that will start to train your eye to see that sharpness. But you're not alone. Seeing sharpness is-- I won't say a talent-- but it is something you have to really kind of practice and learn. So great question. Keep working at it.

Hi Cynthia, my name is Jason Boland, I'm Nick on Ambassador and Motion, Picture still photographer. Great question about Focus. There's so many variables in that question, though, I'd be really more than happy for you. To send me a shot on Instagram, just 2 p.m. and or DM whatever you want to call it these days and I can take a look but you know, it's I've got to really see the settings to understand what you're talking about and you know whether you're shooting manual. Whether you're shooting autofocus and what mode you've got it on, what camera is shooting on, what the light and conditions are the iso, the shutter speed? It could be. There's so many variables so you can send a good question directly to me here or you can send me a photograph and and then I'll answer it here for you. Okay, hope that helps. All right, she's

Okay, question. I'm a photographer. My biggest problem is focus. Naked eye. The photos look fine but I know there should be sharper any tips. Yeah, I think it's all to do with how you're setting your auto focus. If your photos are focusing on using manual. I would, if I was, you switch over to try to use a lot of focus so much possible. And I would tend to try and you know, use if you're if what you're photographing isn't moving very much try and stick to kind of single shot Focus. So your auto focus. Is focusing on something. That's not really moving and then you can press the button and capture it. But then you'll can't, you know, if you're going to go through the menu setting, you'll see all the difference, different ways, your camera can capture the situation. I think most people when they're struggling with Focus are actually struggling with shutter speed, you know, if it's if your shutter speeds not actually fast enough, you're going to get tiny bit of motion blur and that might appear as your Which is not being sharp. The other thing you can do is take your auto focus off your shutter button, so you can reassign it and put it on one of the back buttons of your camera. So that you, you basically, you hold your camera like this, and it's actually your thumb pressing the button on the back to get the focus. And when it's sharp, you take the picture and that actually really helps because often you don't want your shutter button and your autofocus working together. It's nice often, if you got like, I'm shooting a portrait I want. Able to focus and then press the button. So I got my thumb on the back of the camera, pressing to get focused, I see it shot and then my index finger hits the shutter button and that works really well. So try that

I'm an amateur photographer. My biggest problem is focus to the naked eye. The photos look fine but I know they should be sharper. Do I have any tips? And yes, I definitely do. I'm a little late to this question. It looks like a lot of people have already answered it. I'm going to guess they went down, similar paths. So just to be weird. I'm going to go down a completely different path and I'm going to suggest that maybe you need to better understand the autofocus system on your camera. Specifically and how autofocus systems in modern Has generally work. What role does contrast play? Once you understand that, you'll be able to be more sure that what you're giving the camera is what it needs to do, its job and get the focus. So I'm going to link to a video down below. Now, the video I'm linking to a specific to Cannon, but I've got a stress in all, modern camera brands today, the concepts are the same, and while Cannon may have named one of their commands, because in the Yo we go through every autofocus, setting one at a time and describe what they do, while Cannon may call a particular command X and your brand may call it. Why? They may be close enough that you can kind of find the equivalent commands in your particular brand. Again, the one I'm linking to his Cannon, there is a second video in the series on the same channel behind the shot on YouTube. That is for Nikon, Nikon autofocus system explained watch these videos and hopefully that will help you out.

Okay, if your image is not 100% sharp, this can have two reasons. First, your camera is not focusing properly. You have front or back focus problem, which can happen to to dslrs. It's not a problem. Are mirrorless cameras but you can test it out at home. Put your camera on a tripod and auto focus on a subject and then check the images if they are. Harper, not, and then try the lens with, with manual. Focus, with manual focus, it should be 100% sharp. It s your shutter speed is not right. You may be 22, you need a faster shutter speed. If you shoot, let's say with the 200 mil lens and the shutter speed should be at least First 200 of a second without stabilization mode to shoot handheld and Kia, get sharp images. So make sure your you don't have any motion blur, maybe that's the problem in your images. This could also affect here that the sharpness, the oval sharpness of the pictures. So yeah, test it out, I would recommend