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Focus point selection

Focus point selection

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Focus point selection

In this course I've been assuming that you're already comfortable with basic auto focus, a topic that we covered in some detail in the Foundations of Photography: Exposure course. So, you should already be habitually pre-focusing and you should understand what the focus points in your camera's viewfinder are. You may have already encountered times when auto focus was difficult or more complicated or just outright impossible due to weird lighting or complex composition or moving subject matter. Fortunately, your camera probably has features for dealing with all of these issues. Now, like the Exposure course, we're keeping this course camera agnostic. I am not going to talk about specific camera controls or features. But no matter what type of camera or lens you have, you're going to see features that are very similar to what we're seeing here. So, you'll just need to look those up in your manual to understand how to work what I'm doing here on your particular camera. Also, here you're…

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