Ways of Focusing on a Camera

• Auto Focus
• Manual Focus

Autofocus is a camera feature that automatically adjusts the lens to make the subject of your photo sharp and clear, so you don’t have to focus manually.

Manual focus is when you adjust the lens yourself to make the subject of your photo sharp and clear, instead of the camera doing it automatically.

Focal Length

Focal length is the distance between the camera lens and the image sensor when the lens is focused on a subject. It affects how zoomed in or out your photo looks.

A shorter focal length (like 18mm) gives a wide view, while a longer focal length (like 200mm) makes things appear closer, like zooming in.

Aperture

In photography, the aperture is the opening in the lens that allows light to enter the camera and onto the the sensor or film.

Or to put it simply, aperture is the opening through which light passes into the camera.

F-stops

Aperture is measured in f-stops.

The ‘f’ in f-stops stands for focal length.

f-stops are the size of the hole which lets light in through the camera.

Depth of Field

Depth of field is what’s in focus, in front and behind the subject.

Shallow DoF = blurry

Deep DoF = clear

Small f number = deeper dof

large f number = shallow dof

best quality mid aperture

Canon Camera Practice

https://canon.ca/CanonOutsideOfAuto/learn

Settings: Shutter Speed 1/45, Aperture 5.6, ISO 400

Settings: Shutter Speed 1/3, Aperture 22, ISO 400

Settings: Shutter Speed 1/180, Aperture 2.8, ISO 400

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Meatyard made his living as an optician, born in 1925 and died in 1976. He was a member of the Lexington Camera Club and pursued his passion for photography outside the mainstream. He experimented with various strategies including multiple exposures, motion blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction. Two of his series are particularly concerned with focus and depth of field, both stretching the expressive potential of photography, film and cameras when looking with the ordinary world.