Forum: Photo Critique
08-31-2013, 11:00 AM
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As noted above the slow shutter speed is causing the blurring from the ambient light. As for the focus problem it might be you had the focus mode in C instead of S. Pressing and holding the shutter half way locks it in S mode but continuously focuses when held down so you pointed at the girl and while holding it down recomposed and it then focused on the couch. You were in P full program mode? If in one of the other modes the focus style changes some are in S mode and some automatically change it to C mode. Have you selected AF A in the menu? That will override the switch on the camera body and the camera will switch focus modes depending on what it thinks the situation requires. I see you chose red eye reduction but there are a couple of red eye modes. I think what may have happened if you were in P program mode and you selected red eye mode I think you chose the slow sync red eye mode where the camera was trying to expose for the ambient light and set it at 1/3 of a second. So you wound up with an ambient exposure for the room light plus the red eye mode for the flash. So it would look like you had a couple of problems here, continuous focus mode and slow sync red eye mode.
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