practicing manual focus

[aritra_m]

pic 1: http://i49.tinypic.com/16izcwy.jpg

pic 2: http://i48.tinypic.com/kan59g.jpg

[Tenzin'sMom]

Great effort! I'm still at the beginning of learning to use manual as well, and really appreciate your work on these. Thanks for sharing them.

[equilution]

Very nice work Avitra. Excellent exposure and DOF...all with great bokeh. Well done!

[fortunato_uno]

it's funny to think i have to practice shooting with auto focus.
my advice woulld be never turn on the auto focus. you could also try shooting with out image stablalization. even though these are great advances in photography they tend to be some thing of a crutch. another piece of advice is always shoot on the manual setting. this tends to be more diffacult, but is more like shooting before the advent of all these digital advances.
o-yea don't be afraid to look the fool it will often get you a great shot.

[kgb224]

Outstanding work.This is something i will still have to do.Shooting on Manual.Your 2 pictures captured using the Manual setting is superb.

[fstopMike]

Excellent job on the focus. I particularly like the background in your first picture.

[aritra_m]

Thank you everyone .. =)

Messed up some nice shots with off centre focus sometime back. i can see its getting better but takes quite a lot of time.

@ fortunato_uno : i know you are rite, but i get awkward when people keep staring at me. need to let it go.