Auto and Back Button Focus
Lesson 7 from: Capture and Edit Photos of People in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Auto and Back Button Focus
Lesson 7 from: Capture and Edit Photos of People in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Lesson Info
7. Auto and Back Button Focus
Lessons
Introduction
01:26 2Looking for Light
01:40 3Setting Exposure
01:56 4ISO, F-Stop, and Shutter Speed
01:59 5Composition- Rule of Thirds
01:03 6Internal Composition
01:35 7Auto and Back Button Focus
01:35 8Posing vs. Directing
01:12Shooting Manual Mode Recap
01:34 10Lightroom: Interface
00:57 11Lightroom: Importing and Albums
01:33 12Lightroom: Sorting and Ranking
01:56 13Lightroom: Auto Adjustments
01:38 14Lightroom: Color Profiles
02:31 15Lightroom: Export and Share
00:53 16Lightroom: Gradients
02:14 17Lightroom: Brush Tool
01:27 18Lightroom: Copy and Paste Settings
02:09 19Why Use Photoshop
01:03 20Photoshop: Content Aware Fill to Remove Objects
01:16 21Photoshop: Liquify Tool
02:39 22Photoshop: Getting Back to Lightroom
00:36 23Photoshop: Capturing Great Portraits Recap
01:04Lesson Info
Auto and Back Button Focus
Now that I have my composition and my exposure set, I can start shooting, but I need to make sure that my focus is correct. And I'm gonna do that by making sure I'm using two tools on my camera. First, I don't, even though I'm in auto-focus mode, I don't want to let the camera choose the focal point. I'm gonna do that myself. And on every camera, you should be able to set your point of focus and move the point of focus to the area where your subject is. For instance, in our case, I've got the subjects on the right-hand side of the photograph, and so I'm gonna move my focus point over to the right side of the photograph and up just a little bit so it's focusing on my subject when I push the focus button. The second thing I'm gonna do is instead of using the trigger as my focus, I'm moving the focus from the trigger to the back of the camera here. It says auto-focus on. Your camera will have the ability to remove the focus from the trigger and put it on a button on the back which you'll ...
operate with your thumb, which means from here on out, every time you want focus, you simply push the button on the back of your camera, rather than having to push this and having the focus get pulled off when you happen to recompose just a little bit. This is the most dangerous place to have your focus triggered right here. You want it on the back.
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I enjoyed this quick tutorial. A very good introduction to how to use lightroom.
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