[Leica] Focusing

[Mark Rabiner]

I always look for what’s IN focus which is in this case the white flower on her head towards the back of her head . you can see that was the focus center. Its sharp and that sharpness contrast with the sharpness level on her face closer to the camera which is less sharp. There is some extra processing going on it looks like to help sharpen the image perhaps it’s a bit noticeable.
This is way I try to stop down a few as often as possible as you hate to have that magic moment be just out of focus. It doesn’t always ruin the shot but often it does.
I say f 5.6 and be there! Save the wide open shots for black cats at midnight in a coalmine.

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 10/28/17, 4:07 PM, "LUG on behalf of Tina Manley" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:

    Of course, he is an extreme crop, too. I can see his individual eyelashes
    which is good enough for me.  This is with the 50/1.4 which is much less
    forgiving than the 24-90.  When you need it, it's fabulous, but it's not
    always the most accurate unless you take 4 or 5 photos and choose the
    best.  Sometimes that's not possible.  I have some others where you can see
    the pores in the skin of an extreme enlargement.
    
    The only sharpening is the masked sharpening in LR.
    
    Tina
    
    On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
    
    > So how was the focus on the boy? On the jpeg it looks a bit fuzzy too,
    > though less than the girl...
    > Was any sharpening done for this image?
    >
    >
    > Bob Adler
    > www.robertadlerphotography.com
    > *"Capturing Light One Frame At A Time"*
    >
    > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > > I had an e-mail from Moose about the focusing on this photo:
    > >
    > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/166471707
    > >
    > > I can't find the e-mail now but I wanted to explain.  I did have the SL
    > on
    > > face recognition and it does focus on the eyes; however, that photo is an
    > > extreme crop of this one:
    > >
    > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/166475723
    > >
    > > The focus is on the eyes of the boy standing next to her (I cropped and
    > > printed him, too), but I loved her expression and thought the focus was
    > > good enough for notecards and/or postcards.  I won't be printing a 2'x3'
    > > canvas of her.
    > >
    > > Tina
    > >
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