HELP! Blurry Subjects

[Krstgarrison]

I've asked a few times about how to make all subjects in a photo all focused. I've attached a photo for an example. Any and all critiques and suggestions are welcomed.

Thanks!

[RichardTaylor]

Posting the Exif data may help to analyse the problem.

[Aegea]

To me, the center looks sharp, the right side is a bit soft, the left side is more soft, maybe lens misalignment? There may be some back focus as well, difficult to say for sure from this shot. Knowing the aperture would help.

[Biomech]

I would be tempted to say that the aperture is too small/wide or maybe you have a soft lens. In fact, I would probably definitely say the aperture is too low.

Out of interest, what was the ISO? The woman look over noise corrected.

[BigFuzzy]

This is the photo you should have attached (WITH the exif info!) to the OTHER TWO posts you created about this exact same issue instead of creating another thread.

Again, until you also give us EXIF info, we're not going to be able to help you properly because as it stands we're simply guessing.

As has been mentioned in pretty much all the answers you've received now in your three posts about this, it's very likely to be a Depth of Field issue. But we can't tell without EXIF.

It'd also help if you give camera/lens model which can be a factor.

You should also post an unedited photo so that we can truly see the sharpness/focus/blurry issues. The post processing you've done here might detract from us being able to see what's the issue.

Also, are all your blurry shots coming from the same camera/lens combo, or is it duplicated with different lenses?

Barring all that, my analysis, based on the fact that the oldest female's right arm appears to be in focus, is that you were using as shallow a depth of field as your lens would allow and you were using the central auto focus point.

Suggestions (as mentioned in your other thread by others), especially since you're using flash, is to use a smaller aperture (bigger f/#) so that more of the image is in focus.
Also, don't let the camera chose the focal point (or limit yourself to the central point) especially when (presumably) using shallow DoF as it'll not focus where you need unless the needed part is dead center of the frame.

Again, our opinion could vary if your Exif info gives us more insight to what was going on.

[SwissJon]

I agree with everyone.. Except Biomech..

Originally Posted by Biomech

The woman look over noise corrected.

No... That would look more like this:

[Biomech]

lol +1 :P (10 bloody characters)

[sk66]

Girl/guy on left side a bit of motion blur. Overall, less than ideal aperture selection and a little too shallow DOF.

[OsmosisStudios]

There's also a very heavy-handed un-judicial use of flash

[bigben6]

EXIF will tell you all you need to know here, too much flash, too little depth of field is my guess...