So I recently had my first kid, and most of my friends are in the same boat. So in the spirit of over-doing things I tossed out my old Eos Rebel, and picked up a new Eos 40D, with a 24-70 2.8 lens. I also have a 50 mm 1.4 on order.
So most of my photos currently are indoor shots of kids/babies. The issue I'm having is a lot of the shots are half blurry, half in focus. My guess here is my depth of field is too shallow (I wind up shooting indoors so crank the aperture wide open to use the lowest ISO possible while still shooting at 1/60).
So there are a few questions that arise for how to fix this.
1) Is my assumption correct? The kid's nose is in focus, but their neck is blurry.
2) I assume the further you get away from the subject, the larger amount of the subject is focused properly. Is this correct?
3) If you are 10 feet away from a subject, is the same amount of them in focus regardless of your zoom? Or does it change when you zoom. Thus is shooting fully zoomed from 10 feet away, any different than shooting at half/zoom from 5 feet away, if the subject appears the same size in the picture?
What I'm trying to figure out is what's my optimal strategy for indoor photography for faces. Do I need to get the maximum distance possible from the subject and zoom in as far as I can to get the deepest focus band? Should I try focusing on the cheeks or eyes instead of the nose so I'm focused more "in the middle"?
Just trying to figure out a general strategy to employ here. (I figure the issue is only going to get worse using a 50mm 1.4 lens)
Thanks in advance for any help
DJScrib
So most of my photos currently are indoor shots of kids/babies. The issue I'm having is a lot of the shots are half blurry, half in focus. My guess here is my depth of field is too shallow (I wind up shooting indoors so crank the aperture wide open to use the lowest ISO possible while still shooting at 1/60).
So there are a few questions that arise for how to fix this.
1) Is my assumption correct? The kid's nose is in focus, but their neck is blurry.
2) I assume the further you get away from the subject, the larger amount of the subject is focused properly. Is this correct?
3) If you are 10 feet away from a subject, is the same amount of them in focus regardless of your zoom? Or does it change when you zoom. Thus is shooting fully zoomed from 10 feet away, any different than shooting at half/zoom from 5 feet away, if the subject appears the same size in the picture?
What I'm trying to figure out is what's my optimal strategy for indoor photography for faces. Do I need to get the maximum distance possible from the subject and zoom in as far as I can to get the deepest focus band? Should I try focusing on the cheeks or eyes instead of the nose so I'm focused more "in the middle"?
Just trying to figure out a general strategy to employ here. (I figure the issue is only going to get worse using a 50mm 1.4 lens)
Thanks in advance for any help
DJScrib