Beginner Few birds

[Tpowell93]

Few photos taken on a walk through an aviary during my holiday in Orlando. Taken on a Nikon D5300 18-200 lens.

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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#1 is not happy to have his picture taken
#2 & #3 beautifully lit
#4 proper use of flash.

Cool series! …that suffers from a softness related to what I think to
perceive as a front focus issue.

 

[Tpowell93]

As I've not had the camera too long I'm still trying to learn as much as I can. What do you mean by front focus issue? And what best way to prevent this from happening in the future.

 

[Jackwow]

Pic one is a bit close for my liking but nothing wrong with 2, 3 and 4. Nice.

 

[Kodiak Qc]

What do you mean by front focus issue?

Because they are built with tolerances, all lenses (even pro ones) may
be presenting front or back focus issues on any given bodies as they
have themselves tolerances too. This is normal and does not mean that
the lens is defective nor the body. If one adds both tolerances, body and
lens, sometimes the combo is good, sometimes not so.

When correctly focusing on a subject, a photograph may show it out
of focus. One may notice that the targeted point of focus (PoF) is not as
sharp as wished but the sharpness may be somewhere in front of the
subject (front focus) or even behind the subject (back focus).

And what best way to prevent this from happening in the future.

All the bodies I own and use have the Auto Focus Fine Tuning option in
the menu. Why I buy a lens, it has to go through some tests to determine
its sharpness on each of my 3 bodies and, eventually, go through the fine
tuning procedure before I will use it. In total, I have 16 lenses and 3 bodies.
This means 48 (16 x 3) focus checks to perform.

Not all cameras have the Auto Focus Fine Tuning option in their menu. In
these cases, once confirmed that there is such an issue, the combo should
be serviced buy adequate services providers.

 

[Tpowell93]

Thanks for the help. I will have to look into this and see what I can do.