cause of blurred image?

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I took this photo of a friend the other day. The exif shows 85mm 2.2 1/200s ISO 100 and I used flash for a bit of fill.

I am not quite sure why it came out so blurry? Normally I am quite comfortable with this technique, and I selected a focus point close to the right eye.

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That's a pretty shallow DoF. Could it be that you, or he moved slightly before pressing the shutter? Wouldn't take much.
 
it could be movement, i was curious if flash had anything to do with it. Also the pic is a 1:1 crop from LR.
 
Looks like its simply out of focus to me, could you have locked focus and then either you or the subject moved slightly before the shutter was released ( very narrow depth of field here)
 
hsuffyan said:
I took this photo of a friend the other day. The exif shows 85mm 2.2 1/200s ISO 100 and I used flash for a bit of fill.

I am not quite sure why it came out so blurry? Normally I am quite comfortable with this technique, and I selected a focus point close to the right eye.

:help:
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I would say the camera locked focus on the wrong part of the scene, or you or him or both moved slightly between getting focus and the exposure. 2.2 is still pretty shallow and missing focus is just part of the risk shooting that wide open. As long as more if your shots are Sharp I wouldst sweat it.
 
It's just out of focus, probably because either you or he moved after focusing. You've only got a couple of cms of DoF to play with.

Ideally you should go for the nearest eye, which would also have given you an easier target in this case.
 
thank you all for the input. certainly helps knowing what could be the cause!
 
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