p.1 #3 · Tip: Tracking subjects in a busy environment
Morris, I appreciate your tips on these subjects, and I’ve learned from them. I wonder if it would be too much to ask you to at least also post a brief summary here for those of us who are not active participants on the other forum.
p.1 #4 · Tip: Tracking subjects in a busy environment
Hi Dan,
Was there a problem reading the tip on DPReview? In any case here it is:
When you photograph a static subject with it's eye peeking out through a bush the well established solution is to switch to Single Point and place the focus box on your subject. You can do this by reframing or moving the focus stick (joystick). Changing my action settings to use Single Point works wonderfully in this situation.
Note that it's critical to start tracking with your subject in the focus box. Once the subject is recognised the camera's subject detection will do a fantastic job of tracking your subject. Due to the difficulty of keeping the focus box on a moving subject I don't recommend you use Single Point as your default focus setting for action.
Here are some examples where I photographed a Cooper's hawk flying in some distant trees. I'll show you the cropped image which is processed in Photoshop and sharpened using Topaz Photo AI as a plug-in. For all of these photos the focus box was in the middle of the frame and Subject Tracking took over doing a much better job than I did tracking the fast moving hawk.
I don't know why FM is refusing to allow me to upload these photos. It tells me they are larger than 1.4 MB yet they are 1.2 MB. You will need to see the rest on DPReview.
