I feel like with enough practice I can conquer the focus problem.
I haven't heard what you all thought about the chromatic aberration (if that's what it really is). Have a look at the little girl's left eye. Look at the white center. It has a magenta ring around it and a cyan center. The other eye has some of the magenta around the white speck too.
I also
took a picture of the truckbox on the back of my pickup on a bright sunny day. The bright aluminum versus the black tinted window produced a magenta aberration all along the border.
Initially I dismissed the truckbox picture because maybe I overexposed. It's at ISO100, 1/2000s, 50mm, f/1.2 with +1/3ev. However, I don't think I overexposed the picture of my daughter in the original post. So what's up with that?
Is this something the camera is doing? Is light spilling out of the photosites on the sensor and wrecking the blacks? Why am I only seeing it with this lens? Could the lens need adjustment that might help both of my problems out?
Seriously, thanks a bunch guys.