Out of focus issue (Page 2): Here is another shot at it for you...

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

Here is another shot at it for you

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

johnske wrote:

Focus Magic - set at 11 pixels

Wow! What a difference! "Magic" is right.

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Speaking of magic, someone sent me this amazing link of a magician.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ai4tPe80S6Q?rel=0

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Bill Houghton wrote:

Here is another shot at it for you

What did you use for that?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Rumble wrote:

I took this picture of my daughter in a parade today. As you can see I took a nice crisp shot of the house in the backround. I have a Nikon D40 with a 55/22 lens. I used auto focus. Is there any way of fixing this picture so my daughter is in focus? I do not have Picassa or Elements. I am new to photography so if it can be fixed can you explain it as simply as possible? Thank you.

Many here like to use single spot focusing, so the camera has no doubt where the focus should be sharpest.

CajonPhotog Loc: Shreveport, LA

BEWARE>>>>>

Tried downloading Focus Magic. My computer refused it due to malicious virus. So, back to the drawing board for me.

MtnMan Loc: ID

Rumble wrote:

I took this picture of my daughter in a parade today. As you can see I took a nice crisp shot of the house in the backround. I have a Nikon D40 with a 55/22 lens. I used auto focus. Is there any way of fixing this picture so my daughter is in focus? I do not have Picassa or Elements. I am new to photography so if it can be fixed can you explain it as simply as possible? Thank you.

Download Blurity and give it a try.

Tough to fix out of focus. Set your camera on single point focus and go for the eye with people. I believe the focus setting will be AF S with single point on your camera but not sure.

Mine is unregistered thus the watermark.

Photoshop did a better job than I expected. I created a layer and lassoed her head. I then applied the unsharp mask to the selection and made the layer blend mode luminosity.

You can do this exactly the same in Photoshop Elements. It is currently on sale for $69. Elements has a relatively high learning curve, though. I recommend Scott Kelby's book on it if you go that way. I'd finish off the photo by darkening the highlights and background and possibly blurring the background as well so your daughter "pops".

With Blurity

With Photoshop instead

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

jerryc41 wrote:

What did you use for that?

Photo Shop, Only I selected the girl and ran just her through the pencil sharpener so to say. Left everything else alone.

Meives Loc: FORT LAUDERDALE

[quote=Rumble] I'm not good at judging, but I believe f4.5 could be stopped down a bit and 1/1000 seems a bit fast. Also the ISO could have been doubled if needed. David

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

CajonPhotog wrote:

BEWARE>>>>>

Tried downloading Focus Magic. My computer refused it due to malicious virus. So, back to the drawing board for me.

Has it done that with other downloads? It didn't give you a choice? It worked for me, although I did get this warning about the certificate.

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

Rumble wrote:

I took this picture of my daughter in a parade today. As you can see I took a nice crisp shot of the house in the backround. I have a Nikon D40 with a 55/22 lens. I used auto focus. Is there any way of fixing this picture so my daughter is in focus? I do not have Picassa or Elements. I am new to photography so if it can be fixed can you explain it as simply as possible? Thank you.

You mention you used auto focus. Are you also on full auto? If so you're using all your focus points and they're actually useless because you're allowing the camera to focus where it wants rather than where you want.

I would suggest you check your owner's manual on how to set your auto focus to one point, dead center. That's the only way I shoot, with my Canon it has to be done in
the Program setting so I never shoot in full auto.

With a single point placed over your subject during your half press for focus and exposure, you're in control of where the focus is, not the camera.

This one, well I think it's a little too far out of focus to do much with it but in future you can prevent this with the single focus point.

Good Luck

twowindsbear

I think your auto focus 'bulls eye' was on the house, rather than the lady in the car and that's where the camera focused.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

There's really no way to fix this but there's a way to prevent if from happening again. You will have to take your camera out of multi point focus or zone focus, and put it in single point focus. The problem is that in all those other autofocus modes, the camera chooses what to focus on because of the contrast it sees. But if you put a single point on the subject it has no choice but to focus on the spot you choose.

In auto mode the camera chose the marker in the back. What if you wanted to choose the marker in the front. If you had just one point of focus and you chose the front marker, then you'd have that subject in focus every time.

Rumble Loc: Maine

Thank you! Being very new I did not know that I could program my camera to one focal point. I will try this for the next time.

jimmya wrote:

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Rumble Loc: Maine

Thank you for the info. It seems to be the common thread in all the replies.

jerryc41 wrote:

Many here like to use single spot focusing, so the camera has no doubt where the focus should be sharpest.

Rumble Loc: Maine

Thank you for the info. and demo.

jeep_daddy wrote:

There's really no way to fix this but there's a way to prevent if from happening again. You will have to take your camera out of multi point focus or zone focus, and put it in single point focus. The problem is that in all those other autofocus modes, the camera chooses what to focus on because of the contrast it sees. But if you put a single point on the subject it has no choice but to focus on the spot you choose.