[daft_biker]

Originally Posted by morts

Quick tip for portraits:

compose your shot any old way and use the focus indicators to focus on either one or both eyes of your subject. Once in focus, recompose the shot how you want it to end up and take the photo.

That gives you out of focus shots, particularly at wide aperertures on SLRs.

Say I used the centre point to focus on a model's eyes and then tilted the camera down the point of focus would now be behind where I wanted it. Unless you are using a tilt and shift lens the plane of focus is parallel to the film plane (or the sensor).....tilt the camera and you tilt the plane of focus.

In my opinion correct technique on a SLR would be manually focussing or using a focus point in the right place.

Focus and recompose has it's uses but using a 50mm at wide apertures on DSLR isn't one of them.