Get Mastery Over Manual Focus Within A Week

Manual focus is the key to getting sharp images as we know.

But there are lots of new photographers who don’t know how to use manual focus or when to use it.

Are you one of them ?? If yes then don’t worry at the end of this article you must learn how and when and the big question is WHY to use Manual Focus.

Or even if you know how to use this type of focus then this article also helps you to learn some tricks and lessons to improve your overall performance.

So now without wasting your important time, let’s learn new something…..

Get Mastery Over Manual Focus Within A Week

When I was learning photography, at that time this type of focus was next to impossible for me to use because I didn’t know how to handle/use my DSLR.

Then via some research from Google and YouTube, online courses, and constant practice, I finally learned how to use this type of focus.

And right now the manual focus is like real gold for me.

Want to know why??

Here you go……

Benefits of Manual Focus Over Auto Focus

Improves your photographic skills like anything.
Able to capture sharper images.
Clearer image while doing night photography
When you are the boss of Manual focus then you can make your background blurry ( so-called bokeh ).
Far better than Auto Focus
Every time gives you the best Result
You can capture the image faster than autofocus
Became master of Macro Photography

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For Mirrorless camera users: 3 steps to enable the Back button Focus technique (my favourite)

We can discuss some points from these benefits to understand this better.

Get Mastery Over Manual focus

Here are some of the important steps, which you need to remember or apply to get mastery over manual focus.

Capture Your First Image Right Now

If you have any photoshoots today or if you don’t have any !! then you can just capture some random pictures today.

Capture every single image with this type of Focus.

To shoot images with this type of focus you just need to turn on the Manual Focus (MF) which you can see on your D-SLR’s lens.

See this image to know the perfect position of this MF and AF mode.

Here AF is for Autofocus and MF for Manual focus.

And then just capture !!, I know it’s hard and weird but this is the basic thing you need to do to use this Manual Focus.

Because when I started capturing images using this type of Focus, it was really too late so I hope it’s not that late for you.

Do enough Practice

That’s the golden key to achieving greatness over this type of Focus.

Once you know how to capture an image using Manual Focus you can capture anything within some milliseconds.

So for practice, I share my personal method to make your Manual Focus level so high, this method is so simple.

For this, you just need one or two objects you can choose anything(the object must be a non-living thing like a pen, smartphone, sharpener, eraser, etc).

But keep some distance and try to capture each object using this type of Focus.

Three different ways to do this exercise are listed below.

1. Capture only one object sharp and another blur.

2. Capture the Second object sharp and the first blur

take three objects, put all objects in one row then

3. Capture the middle object sharp and the first/third blur.

Practice makes the man perfect, and that’s the basic practice you need to do again and again to get mastery over this type of Focus.

Important Things To Do After Learning Manual Focus

Once you learn this method then you need more accuracy.

Yes, accuracy matters a lot after knowing and learning this type of Focus.

The reason behind this is that when you get more accuracy, you can able to capture images very quickly, and right now you’re only able to capture non-living things by using this type of Focus.

So to capture living things like a bird, model or insect you need more accuracy, and more speed so that is the reason to get more accuracy on Manual Focus.

This accuracy is the answer to Manual Focus’s benefits if accuracy is good then

Macro photography (butterfly, insects etc)- possible

Sharper images – possible

More quickly you can capture –possible

Night photography – possible

So for all these reasons now you can understand why this type of Focus is more beneficial than Auto Focus.

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Manthan

Hi, I'm Manthan I'm a professional photographer and founder of photographywith.com. this site hosts all of my writing on photography stuff like blogs, reviews, editing, and much more. whatever I learn new, I publish here as a blog with some good and easy examples. Cheers, Manthan

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