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4: SAY CHEESE! 109

One easy way to work is to set the focus point location in the middle, ﬁnd your subject’s

eye, and press the shutter button halfway to set focus. With your ﬁnger still holding

the shutter halfway down, recompose and

take the photo. The “focus and recompose”

method is a quick way to photograph people

and can work for many situations. Speed

is important because people tend to move

around during the shooting process, and

keeping the focus point in the middle can

simplify things for you.

Catchlight

A catchlight is that little sparkle that adds

life to the eyes (Figure 4.10). When you are

photographing a person with a light source

in front of them, you will usually get a reﬂec-

tion of that light in the eye, be it your ﬂash,

the sky, or something else brightly reﬂecting

in the eye. The light reﬂects off the eye sur-

face as bright highlights and serves to bring

attention to the eyes. Larger catchlights from

a reﬂector or studio softbox tend to be more

attractive than tiny catchlights from a ﬂash.

Another option for photographing people is

to use Live View’s facial detection features.

The Canon 70D has the ability to detect and

track human faces, allowing you to focus

on those faces quickly. Basically, the camera

keeps a track on the faces it can ﬁnd in your

scene, and then once you press the shutter it

focuses on the face onto which it is locked.

This is great for fast-moving subjects, but I

wouldn’t recommend it for close-up work

with a very shallow depth of ﬁeld (such as an

aperture set to f/2.8), as you’ll want to make

sure that the focus is always set to the eyes

instead of another portion of the face.

Figure 4.10 The catchlights in this image add a

sparkle to the little girl’s somber expression.

ISO 100 • 1/500 sec. • f/2.8 • 40mm lens

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