af help

[irish626]

Great Blue Heron looks  rather soft to me. Your thoughts.Shot with Canon 70D, EF-S 55-250mm @250MM, f 5.6. TV mode 1/1250, ISO 800

[diverhank]

It looks to me that the heron was in focus. The eye looks pretty sharp to me.   It might be just the limit of what this lens can do.

 I may be wrong but I think this picture was overprocessed?  Also, this picture background is so busy I'm surprised it turns out this well.   I too have many like this and I would not keep any of them.

[kvbarkley]

It appears to be a copy and paste from some other program. Note the hint of a bounding box.

[irish626 · Accepted solution]

KV,

Thanks for your reply and I did crop this pic in Preview on my mac laptop as the original was too large to attach to my post and the only way I know is to crop it. So you are spot on as to resizing. Just still trying to get a grip on the af system and settings. Still learning!

[kvbarkley]

If you install Canon's Digital Photo Professional on your Mac you can see what focus points were used for the shot. (Unless, possibly, you use the distortion correction.)

[kvbarkley]

Oh, and Photos will let you export the image at a lower resolution and keep the EXIF data we can use to troubleshoot.

[irish626]

Diverhank

I was messing around with the original in Preview on my mac laptop pro and did change some coloring and tones etc and then I could not get back to the original so it could very well be overprocessed. I struggle with the af settings on the 70D and end up with out of fucous pics more often thn not. Thanks for your input, I appreciate it.