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TPF Noob!
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I really am an aged newbie, so need to be treated gently please. I have tried to get through some of the threads on the forum but just get lost among the details. I'm more a "post photo" person and use Photoshop quite extensively for cropping, rotating, sharpening, etc., but taking the original shot is driving me crazy.
I used to have an old Kodak EziShare Z740 so just had to point and click to get a "reasonable" picture. I now have family playing higher-level rugby union and like to take pictures for distribution on club websites, facebook accounts etc.
My problem is getting the foreground subject (Player) in focus instead of the trees or crowd in the background. I understand this is a Depth of Field problem (dof ????) but don't know how to fix it. I seem to get a percentage of the pictures with exactly this problem.
I've tried reading the manual, and following various threads, but just get lost. Basically I have the camera in Sports Mode, with Continuous Shots. Everything else is in "auto".
I've included two of the shots with the players quite "large" in the picture, but the camera has focussed on the background. I reduced the sizes to 1000 wide as suggested.
I used to have an old Kodak EziShare Z740 so just had to point and click to get a "reasonable" picture. I now have family playing higher-level rugby union and like to take pictures for distribution on club websites, facebook accounts etc.
My problem is getting the foreground subject (Player) in focus instead of the trees or crowd in the background. I understand this is a Depth of Field problem (dof ????) but don't know how to fix it. I seem to get a percentage of the pictures with exactly this problem.
I've tried reading the manual, and following various threads, but just get lost. Basically I have the camera in Sports Mode, with Continuous Shots. Everything else is in "auto".
I've included two of the shots with the players quite "large" in the picture, but the camera has focussed on the background. I reduced the sizes to 1000 wide as suggested.