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10 Tips To Get Sharp Focus In Your Photographs

January 18, 2022

10 Tips To Get Sharp Focus In Your Photographs

Are you ready to get sharp focus in your phtographs? Well, I’ve put togeth­er 10 tips to get sharp focus in your photographs.

Do you ever take a pic­ture only to upload it and see that it’s out of focus? Soft focus has to be one of the most frus­trat­ing aspects of pho­tog­ra­phy. That’s why I’ve put togeth­er these 10 tips to get sharp focus in your photographs.

Tak­ing tack-sharp pho­tos is the one thing most begin­ning pho­tog­ra­phers strug­gle with! I see it every day in my Face­book Group, and it’s one of the things that I teach in The Begin­ners Pho­tog­ra­phy Essen­tials Class.

If you are strug­gling with the same thing? You aren’t alone… it’s chal­leng­ing to get sharp focus in your pho­tog­ra­phy. It’s frus­trat­ing when your images are “soft” or out of focus. I know…it was my strug­gle when I was learn­ing to use my cam­era. But don’t you wor­ry, you can get sharp focus in your photography. 

I have put togeth­er these 10 tips to get sharp focus in your pho­tographs. Today, I am going to break it down for you. I will give you tips that will get you on your way to achiev­ing those per­fect, tack-sharp pho­tos every time.

10 Tips To Get Sharp Focus in Your Photographs

Tip #1 Aperture


The first thing so many peo­ple do when they get a new lens is to start shoot­ing wide open. You may not real­ize that your lens won’t pro­duce its sharpest pic­tures at its widest aper­ture. The best aper­ture for your lens to cre­ate tack-sharp pho­tos is usu­al­ly a few stops down from the widest aper­ture. Remem­ber this when shoot­ing, and try not to open up your lens all the way.

Tip #2 Shutter Speed


My sec­ond tip for you to get sharp focus in your phtog­ra­phy is all about Shut­ter Speed. Many times peo­ple’s pho­tos aren’t sharp because their shut­ter speed is too slow. Remem­ber that your shut­ter speed is how long your shut­ter is open. The longer the shut­ter is open, the more room for shake or move­ment, result­ing in a blur in your images and a soft, out-of-focus pho­to. I teach my stu­dents to keep their shut­ter speed above 1/100. If you go below, it helps to use a tripod.

10 Tips To Get Sharp Focus In Your Photographs

Tip #3 ISO


The #3 tip in my 10 tips to get sharp focus in your pho­tographs is ISO. If you’re using a high ISO, you’re going to end up with more “noise” in your pho­tos, thus mak­ing the details appear fuzzy. Make sure that you are using the low­est ISO pos­si­ble when­ev­er you can.

Tip #4 Back Button Focus


This tip is a game-chang­er. When you use back but­ton focus­ing, you use a but­ton on the back of your cam­era to set and hold focus. You are sep­a­rat­ing the focus and the shut­ter into two dif­fer­ent but­tons. You sim­ply set the focus, and it stays. I dive more into back but­ton focus in The Begin­ners Pho­tog­ra­phy Essen­tials course.

Tips #5 Your Lens


This goes back to aper­ture and your lens work­ing at its best poten­tial. If you are shoot­ing a zoom lens, it will work best at its mid-range.

10 Tips To Get Sharp Focus In Your Photographs

Tip #6 Posture


It’s going to hap­pen; you are going to move when tak­ing a pho­to. Whether it’s tak­ing a breath or shak­ing, move­ment will affect your pho­tos. Mak­ing your body cre­ate a “tri­pod” will help with this. Brace your elbows against your body. Stand with your feet shoul­der-width apart and snap the shut­ter slow­ly and gen­tly. This will help with any body shake that you may have.

Tip #7 Image Stabilization


Your cam­era has a nifty lit­tle tool called image sta­bi­liza­tion. It can real­ly help you get sharp images if used cor­rect­ly. Learn more about your image sta­bi­liza­tion and use it accordingly.

Tip #8 Use The Right Settings


This may be the most impor­tant tip to get sharp focus in your pho­tog­ra­phy. Under­stand­ing your set­tings and using the cor­rect set­tings is essen­tial when achiev­ing sharp focus. Adjust­ing your focal points and your focal set­tings will make a huge dif­fer­ence in the focus of your shots.

Tip #9 Learn to Shoot in Low Light


If you notice that your low light shots are con­tin­u­ous­ly blur­ry, under­stand­ing and learn­ing to shoot in low light will make all of the dif­fer­ence. There is a big dif­fer­ence in the set­tings you will use in low light and under­stand­ing that will help you achieve a bet­ter focus.

Tip #10 Use a Tripod

10 Tips To Get Sharp Focus In Your Photographs


Buy­ing a good tri­pod can absolute­ly help you get sharp focus in your pho­tos, espe­cial­ly if shoot­ing at night. Tripods also help when you’re using a longer, heav­ier lens.

There you have it, my 10 tips to get sharp focus in your pho­tographs help you get sharp focus. If you want to learn to use your cam­era, under­stand your pho­tos and start tak­ing amaz­ing pho­tos today, make sure that you check out The Begin­ners Pho­tog­ra­phy Essen­tials class!

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