Help---focus issue

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I have taken a few photos of the door lock today. I know they are not great, just practicing.

My question is, how can I get the key hole and the name in focus?

Sounds, like a really simple question....

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I'm no expert but the close ups are at f11 - quite a small aperture but you're too close to benefit.

When further away you're at f5.6 where the depth of field is shallower.

Try from further away ay smaller aperture.

Depends, of course what you're after - larger picture or to hone in on one part of the image.

A smaller aperture from further away and then a tighter crop in post processing may improve.
 
Were these hand held? as your shutter speed is rather slow 1/50 and 1/25.

Is the lens a Macro lens?
 
Will try again next time I'm in the area.
They are all hand held with 28-90 lens
 
It's because at that close distance depth of field is very shallow. You just need to use a higher f/number for greater depth of field, and focus at a distance half way between the name and the key hole so that the extended depth of field then covers them both. Should be easy.
 
1/25th :eek: = camera shake.
 
Up the ISO to 200 or 400, its a grainy subject so noise shouldnt be an issue.
 
Although this is a depth of field and focus problem (as I posted above) if you are using a longish shutter speed like 1/25sec camera shake could be a problem, unless you are using a tripod or have some kind of image stabilisation system (IS or VR etc). And if you use a higher f/number, of course the shutter speed will get longer still.

For hand-holding a camera, the rule of thumb is to use a shutter speed that is at least as high as your effective focal length (including crop factor). So if you are using at 100mm lens on a Canon crop camera (1.6x effective focal length) you should use 100x1.6=1/160sec as a minimum.

IS/VR will allow you to increase that to maybe 1/40sec or perhaps even longer if you have one of the latest versions and a naturally steady hand, but remember that those are only a guide to the absolute minimums and as always with these things, the higher the better.
 
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