Ok I give it a shot.

here's my two cents.

I am NOT a photographer, that being said I have a canon power shot A80
I set to macro and take about 10 shots of the same setup slightly modifying the range and then picking the best picture of the set.

Its cheating I know but I realy have no other way of telling how focused the shot is. thank God for digital cameras. the film cost would suck LOL

It's not cheating. Everyone can be fotographer now. Why do you think I take 90-some shots and only use high 30s for a dio? Lighting, fuzziness, angles, a lot goes into it. And yes, amazing that we don't have to use film anymore!

TrenchViper...
http://www.joedios.com/forums/showt...21199#post21199

I took some pictures today using the method you mentioned and it helped. The pictures turned bad though because it started to rain and it got dark.
Thanks for the info I probably will have better luck tomorrow.

Ah now..
 

Ah now we're getting somewhere... your fighting the very menace we fight every day!! The weather!!
Again.. welcome aboard :D

Alizeé.... mmmm.....

Hahaha
 

Hahaha :D
No seriously.. all joking aside we need to get back to photography questions, however before we do...

I had great trouble getting in the right mindset with taking pictures from far away I kept going closer all the time :eek: . Today I brought a mesuring tape with me out in the forest and that helped got two shots of a cobra sniper that I dare show. Still my camera is dead set on focusing on everything but the figure. My old film camera had a dial where you could adjust the focus where you wanted but I cant find it on my camera.

I have found that my camera prefer to be 75 cm away from figure for it to take the best pictures. Many thanks for all your tips.