My parents won't thank me for this....but....I hope they won't mind, I need their faces to ask you all for help!
My get-pushed partner for this week challenged to take some photos of faces. One face I can do, but when it came to two or more like this, in every shot one face was ever so slightly out of focus. Have set multiple points of focus, and tried using the A-Dep setting (have Canon 450D)
@huvesaker thanks....I crawled all round the floor trying to hide light switches and doorhandles......at one point my Dad had two noses - one turned out to be the corner of a square light shade behind him.
I love taking portraits/the blurry background look. When there is more than one person I find you need to have a smaller aperture and it also helps when both faces are on the same focusing plane. Alternatively, I focus on the person closest to the camera and again, adjust aperture. Hope that makes sense! :)
As others have mentioned, a smaller aperture is going to help but then you start moving into longer shutter speeds so a tripod might be useful. Unless you bump up your ISO then you start getting noise issues... It never ends does it?
@steampowered that's exactly right! They thought I was totally incompetent anyway as I'd left it on self timer and couldn't work out why it wasn't taking a picture, before looking at the lens just as the flash went off and blinding myself comedy style....hilarious!
@paul2782 is right, you will never get both in focus with this composition; they need to be more on the same plane. You could try using a wide angle lens and cropping.
On the plus side, I love this picture. Your parents have so such kind faces.
On the plus side, I love this picture. Your parents have so such kind faces.