That Works Unless You’re Shooting at f/1.4

The “lock focus and recompose” tip I just shared on the previous page works for almost every situation, with almost one exception: when you’re shooting a portrait with your f-stop set to f/1.4, or maybe even f/1.8 (of course, you have to have a lens capable of shooting at that wide an f-stop, so if you don’t have one of those, you can skip this tip altogether). The problem comes from the fact that when you’re shooting at f/1.4 (for example) and you focus on the eye, then lock the focus and recompose the shot, the depth of field is so incredibly shallow that the recomposing part can actually put the eye a little bit out of focus (crazy, I know, but this is why you sometimes read in online forums people claiming that their $1,800 lens doesn’....