Focus point

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I took some photos yesterday for a freind of a litter of pups he had. In this photo I tried to get the pups as close toegther as possible and I think I focused on the nose of the pup on the left. were would you consider the best point of focus or technique in this situation.
Ian

eyes or nose, hopefully with enough DOF to get both in. looks like you had limited light too maybe bounce overhead flash to help with a smaller aperture?

I leave on centre focus point, focus on nose, half press and swing back to centre for shot. Or use manual focus and listen for the beep as it locks on.

Anyway it looks sharp enough to me.

Eyes always for a portrait. If the eyes are sharp, you've hit the spot.

Centre focus, lock on one eye (they are all pretty much in the same plane here) hold and recompose. Use Quick Shift to fine tune if necessary.

John could you elaberate on quick shift Im not realy familiar with the term thanks both for the input.
Ian

Quick Shift is the feature on most Pentax DA lenses that enables a manual focus tweak after the AF has locked, without having to switch anything into manual focus. It's especially useful in close up and macro work.

If you disable AF with half press of the shutter you don't need to have a lock and you can use the AF button on the back to auto focus.
So you can manual focus all the time and have AF with the AF button.

I don't see the advantage of that Stefan, when there's a perfectly efficient method as described. Maybe in some situations that I never come across.

The advantage is you don't need an AF lock to release the shutter.

You can use MF all the time or when AF overshoots go to MF and take the shot without a lock on.

Or with the situation you describe for portrait.
AF on the eyes - quick-shift to fine tune the focus - release the shutter.
You can take the first part away if you or the subject hasn't moved but you didn't hold the shutter to keep the AF lock on.

It's not a better way of doing it, both ways have their advantages but I personally like not to have the AF under the release because of the things I said here.

I realy did not know of this thanks John and Stefan I will try this out for myself soon.
Ian