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Ken wrote:Hey boneless,
I forgot to say...in your pictures, the fish looks out of focus but the background is in focus. See if your camera has a macro function. Use the macro if you are taking picture of the fish at arm's length. Also, see if your auto focus metering has something called "spot metering". Just before you click down on the shutter button, a lot of cameras allow you to click halfway and the camera's auto focus will try to find a focus point in you picture. In most cases, the camera tries to focus on the closest object if the closest object is of considerable size (if you try to focus on a blade of grass...good luck...it can be done, but much more difficult).
With spot metering, you can point the center point of your viewfinder to the fish and the camera should focus on the fish if you are using the macro mode.
Before you go out taking pictures of more fish, you can practice at home just playing around with your camera. Good objects to practice on are mugs (the curvature of the mug allows you to try and focus at different depth and angle), pens photographed from the table surface angle (or other long objects for macro...it's more difficult and it will hone your skills) and if you are really keen, try grains of salt/sugar.
Have fun!
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