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two pictures of the same subject, cropped the same. Focus points are slightly different.

Was hoping to get some feedback from the photogs here on whatever happens to come to mind.

<img src="http://photos18.flickr.com/24079212_155bc9a219.jpg?v=0">

Here, the eye and the head of the frog is in focus, with the rest of the body being slightly out of focus.


<img src="http://photos18.flickr.com/24079211_12226ee637.jpg?v=0">

Here, the entire body is in focus, though the eye is slightly less focused than, say, the legs.

A compelling reason might be because you're specifically focusing on something else like a nose-ring, and the eye has to fall out of focus, or if there is a second subject in the photo. It would be ok not to have sharp focus in the eye of, say, a baseball player swinging for a hit, and have the focus be on the primary subjects: bat and ball, rather than the player.

Otherwise, pretty much you will always want focus on the eye, since the eye is where your eye as a viewer will fall first.

focusing in general was extremely difficult, as I could barely see the frog itself. I think I auto-focused the shot where the body is in focus, and manually focused the shot where only the head is in focus.

On top of that, I think this was using 100 or 200 speed film.

I love my flash.

****, even my D70 will shine a light to focus in the dark. It's very useful!

Anyway, overall I like the shots (didn't say that above, kind of forgot), but I would definitely stick with the one that's focused on the eye.

yes, it does have AF assist lamp on the flash. Shoots a little red light out to help the camera focus.

that being said, you have to find the damn thing in the dark in with the camera first, lol.

I didn't think it would be red on yours. Seems that could be difficult to use.

These lines works best (providing the most contrast) with the individual AF sensors for all EOS cameras.

Plus Canon's explanation for using red versus white is because the pupils of the eye don't dilate as much compared with white light used.

which, in fact, will do better to prevent red-eye. But I'm sure each manuf. has a good reason for choosing what they did. I was just surprised, because I find the white light SO very useful when focusing in the dark.