Are you getting your focus right? Here’s how to do it.

Good info . Thanks

Thank you, awesome helpful video

I am having trouble with focus. I am taking a picture of a bridge for example and there are lights on top of the bridge and under the bridge that are not in focus. Do you have a course or videos that will explain this and other important things for taking landscaping photos. Thanks alot

Spot on 👌 thank you so so much

Hi I have been learning from your videos. Been doing photography for a while and it's been a game changer. Very clear to follow and learn. Thank you

Your cinematographer nailed it in this video. Great job!

📸 thx

As always extremely easy helpful! I’d certainly appreciate an intro btw if you would be so kind ! ❤

Thanks. That was really helpful. I normally shoot 3 bracketed and 3 focus-stacked at the same time . Get's some great results.

I don't think you were clear about the focal length in the first example. You mentioned a "wide angle" when you took the green reeds in the foreground.

Nice, simple explanations Will. Which lake are you at here??

Not sure if it was you asking me where my comment went to William. (I've had another comment disappear recently on a birding channel.) My question was to do with focus. Pretty much all my images are soft (even when using a tripod). My son tells me I am 'rock solid' the way I hold the camera (I don't have shaky hands). I have just one spot focus, usually on mid-ground. Generally use f11 and ISO 100-200 (light not being a problem). Shutter speed various depending on wind conditions. Both my husband and son get tack sharp photos using the same cameras (Canons 5DMIV and R5). I am so discouraged, I 'almost' feel like giving up. If it was you, thanks for asking.

Focus stack right? Easy in Lightroom

Thanks William, I needed this.

Cheers Will , nice vid , appreciated

Hi William, great tips on focusing. Something I really struggle with. Questioin, if I want to use selective focus , i.e. main subject in background tack sharp and foreground really soft do you use manual focus to focus on the background? What fstop would you use or does it even make a difference if the backgrund is over 100 yards away? Thanks William.

Is noone else going to acknowledge that squat exit lol!? - Love it! :) This is super helpful as always, thanks Will! One thought/suggestion - I can't always tell the difference in sharpness for the shots when they are one after the other... I wonder if there's a way to post them side-by-side for easier comparison? Regardless, I'm a huge fan, thank you so much for the content and I hope to see you at a workshop in the coming couple of years!

Very helpful video.Which metering mode do you like to use,Spot, Centre or Matrix.

Love this ❤

Really helpful William, thanks for sharing 👏👏

Thanks for the video. I always get confused by this rule of thumb. Is “1/3 of the way” 1/3 of the distance from the near focal plane to the far focal plane, or 1/3 of the vertical distance in the viewfinder from the bottom of the frame to the location of the far object. Those are very different. In my experience, there is very little chance of getting the entire scene sharp at f11 without focus stacking on a 60 megapixel full frame sensor - hyperfocal near limit for a full sensor image at 300dpi viewed 12 inches away (with 20/20 vision), taken with a 20mm lens at f11 would be 16 feet from the camera. F16 would be 11 1/2 feet. It’s a rare occasion when I don’t have something closer than that with a 20mm lens.

When you review your photos on the back of the A7riii what magnification do you use to check focus? When i check on mine it seems to zoom way in, and it nearly always seems to out of focus...?

Great video, do you use back button focus or is it just a dsrl old thing?

Excellent information! Thank you!

Great explanation, thank you

Nice clear explanation. I spent so long automatically using f/9 to f/11 that I was surprised to learn (after test shots) that my Canon 70-200 f/4L is typically sharpest at f/5.6 (or occasionally f/8). Of course, there's less DOF than at smaller apertures but at infinity I have to remind myself not to select f/9+ out of habit. It's definitely worth taking controlled test shots at multiple apertures (and focal lengths, if a zoom) to objectively examine the inherent sharpness of a lens. It opened my eyes a bit. 🙂

Great explanation of focus king with different types of lenses. Why do you use the larger focus box as opposed to the smaller options?

Excellent explanation Will.