1. Explain the purpose of autofocus and manual focus
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Autofocus and Manual Focus
Learn to choose single, continuous, eye detection and manual focus appropriately.
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What you will learn
2. Apply a practical method to choose single, continuous, eye detection and manual focus appropriately
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3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk
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4. Review the result and record one useful improvement
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Step-by-step practice
Step 1. Identify why autofocus and manual focus matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to choose single, continuous, eye detection and manual focus appropriately.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Photograph a still subject, moving subject and low-contrast subject with the best focus method for each.
Safe and responsible practice: Change one setting at a time and review sharpness at useful magnification.
Practical activity
Complete and record this task
Photograph a still subject, moving subject and low-contrast subject with the best focus method for each.
Good-practice checklist
Important detail is acceptably sharp
Exposure protects the intended highlights
Complete the practical activity for autofocus and manual focus
Record settings or decisions that produced the best result
Review the result on a second screen or as a print
Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant
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