Today’s photo isn’t so impressive but, any day I learn something new is a good day!
My camera is a DSLR with the Live View feature. Live View is familiar to everybody who’s ever used a point and shoot camera. Live View has become so popular that many of P&S cameras don’t even have view finders anymore. However, this feature is new to DSLRs because the mirror normally blocks the view through the lens.
Withe the DSLR, the normal way to compose a shot like this is to look through the view finder, press the shutter halfway down to focus and take the picture. This scene is too busy and the light too low for the autofocus to work properly so I switched the focus to manual.
The depth of field is pretty shallow so you can easily see what I was focusing on but, looking through the camera’s viewfinder, I couldn’t see the “Jenga” text clearly enough. As an assist I turned on Live View and then – here’s my lesson for today – zoomed way in to the scene!
What’s really cool about the zoom feature is that I had already selected the closest focus point. Zooming in then zoomed in on that point. As I zoomed closer and closer then I could move the focus point over to the right and up a bit. I could now clearly see the Jenga text and dial in my focus exactly.
Cool huh?! Well, I thought it was pretty neat 
