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I have a rebel t5, its my first nice camera.  I wanted to take a really close up picture of my sons face, and the auto-focus did its thing but then would stop on a blurry face! whats the deal? I tried auto setting and portrait setting.   This happene...

I just got the t5, i know nothing about cameras. I set up the camera as per the instructions and am using the provided lens.In auto mode (or any mode for that matter)  my subject is showing up like the background and its bringing forward the backgrou...