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Focus & Subject

Now the focus on a cell phone is quicker and much easier than it was decades ago.  Before, you had to run the focus ring on  a lens or just turn a few bits here and there, but now it is as easy as touching the picture where you want to keep focus. 

To begin, focus is just the sharp parts of an image.  Some parts are blurry but what you want the picture to be should be in focus and sharp: that is your subject.  Out of focus is for the most part very unappealing and distracts from your images as a whole. 

The subject of so many is usually a person, animal, object, or landscape for most of us.  I know many of us take pictures of our families, and those precious moments are important.  Why ruin the moment by taking a sloppy picture that is out of focus.  Although, depending on what the subject is it can be tedious taking a picture of kids running all over the house, but not impossible.  

When you know what you want to capture you can just tap the part of the image when you while, standing or sitting.  This part of the picture taking is easy. 

In the example below I just tap the screen while looking for a place to focus as well as thinking for a subject in this coffee shop.

Like,  before turning on your grid lines is like step one, and then finding the focus and subject is next.

*shot on iPhone*
*shot on iPhone* 
*shot on iPhone*


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