Focusing help

[Casanovaxpress]

Here are some pictures i took today while paying respects to our Uncle. Please let me know if they seem to be infocus to you. While using Photoshop and zooming to 100% they are not sharp. Should they be?

I would like to copy the camera setting information and post it here but i dont know how so if anyone can point that out to me that woud be great.

For almost all of the pictures i took today i selected my center AF point and used that to ensure what i wanted to be focused was. However they kinda seem soft to me.

Thank you again for your helpful comments.

1. The sharpest one to me.

2. Looks soft to me

3.

4.

Thank you again for your help!!!!

Josh

 

[misstwinklytoes]

On #2 the focus is on the flowers, not the girl. It looks like you were shooting wide open or close to it, so the girl was on a slightly different plane and therefor a lil soft. (If you notice, it looks like her buttons on her dress are pretty sharp too, and what an Adorable dress!) Whatever your camera software is should have a place to look at image information. If you're using Canon and Digital Photo Professional, you just right click on the image and click info and it will pull all that up.

 

[misstwinklytoes]

Here are you pic settings.

#1
131mm
Canon 60D
ISO 125
Aperture 4
SS 1/1000
No flash fired

#2
94mm
ISO 125
Aperture 5.6
SS 1/80
No flash fired

#3
87mm
ISO 125
Aperture 11
SS 1/100
No flash fired

#4
70mm
ISO 125
Aperture 10
SS 1/50
No flash fired

 

[misstwinklytoes]

The one thing that sticks out MOST to me is your shutter speeds. They are really low. Especially with such a little child. With kids I normally don't go under 1/250 on shutter speed. I try to go to about 1/500. With the flags too, it looks like at 1/50 you might have got some movement in the shot. The next thing is in your full sun photos you have ISO of 125, but in the shady picture of your little girl, it probably could have been raised significantly and your shutter speed quickened to compensate. And after looking at the exif data, I think that #2 probably is not because of your fstop but more because of the slow shutter speed.

I am by NO means an expert, but since no one had chimed in, I thought I'd offer my $0.02.

 

[Casanovaxpress]

The one thing that sticks out MOST to me is your shutter speeds. They are really low. Especially with such a little child. With kids I normally don't go under 1/250 on shutter speed. I try to go to about 1/500. With the flags too, it looks like at 1/50 you might have got some movement in the shot. The next thing is in your full sun photos you have ISO of 125, but in the shady picture of your little girl, it probably could have been raised significantly and your shutter speed quickened to compensate. And after looking at the exif data, I think that #2 probably is not because of your fstop but more because of the slow shutter speed.

I am by NO means an expert, but since no one had chimed in, I thought I'd offer my $0.02.

Thank you!@ Tomorrow is my brothers baby shower and i will take some shots. I will increase my SS to fix my focusing problem.. I just know that i can never really get super sharp images.. And i know its me because i have a really great lens... Again thank you i will try and post the pics later!