Good to know it is a common problem! That is exactly how I've been getting the focus, I would tip the camera either to an edge of her that contrasts the background and lock focus then recompose or I would set it on where the black and tan meet in her face, which sometimes would and sometimes would not work. I had wondered if that bit of recomposing was enough to change the DOF into a not as sharp focus when I was shooting at 2.8. (newbie boo boo). But I remembered what you had told me in another post here that you normally shoot at f/8 and iso 200 and ss of 200 (at least I think I was close...as I was setting up last night,I didn't stop to look it up to see if I was exact but I figured that was at least the ball park! ) so that is what I was using last night. At f/8 I'm sure the recomposing would not effect the focus. You are right I don't have any problems with focus with lighter dogs.

My modeling lights are just the standard 100w light bulbs. I'll get some halogen ones thanks for the tip! These aren't very bright, that would help a lot.

Hallie sends one back to Rowdy, she likes big dark and handsome guys!


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