PROJECT 4 PENCIL TIPS

Sharpen your focusing skills with colourful crayons

Getting precise and accurate focusing is much trickier with a macro lens, and using the viewfinder can be a hit-or-miss process. Instead, frame up with your camera on a tripod and switch to Live View mode to see your composition on screen. Use the screen’s zoom controls to go in tight, then scroll with the D-pad to display a magnified view of the point you’ve focused on. (Most cameras give 10x magnification – plenty to allow highly accurate focusing.) By switching to manual focus and gently tweaking the focusing ring, you can then get your focus point exactly where you want it. You may still want to make some tiny adjustments – eyes right for this… TIP 1 Let it slide! Make framing and focusing easy With the small stage…

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