41/365: I took the plunge.




I have been debating for months now whether or not it would be worth it to switch to BBF (back button focus). I don't know why I was so afraid. It's not like I couldn't have just changed the settings back if I didn't like it! So this morning, I switched to BBF and also changed my autofocus mode from AF-A to AF-C.
Oh. My. Goodness.
It's not that I have been having focus issues per-say, but when I'd do a shoot with a moving kiddo I'd nail focus in about 60-70% of the shots I took, even if I was pretty sure I'd selected the best focus point and locked focus. This afternoon, it was closer to 95%! What a difference this is going to make.
I also had a little fun with sun flare. The time of day (noon) wasn't the best for portrait work, but it was definitely easy to find the sun in the sky!

2 comments:

Mindy said...

Beautiful! I'm still not clear exactly on what BBF is - any websites or tutorials you'd recommend? Also - I shoot with Canon and am not familiar with the difference between AF-A & AF-C?

Megan said...

I don't remember if you're on clickinmoms or not, but if so there are tons of great threads about BBF focus over there.
Here's a short post about it on a wedding photographer's blog.
http://www.melissajill.com/blog.cfm?postID=108

Your Canon equivalents for the focus modes are AF-A = AI and AF-C = AI Servo. (Basically- in AI Servo your camera will continually track and attempt to lock focus on the focal point that you have selected.) HTH :)