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  • Is it me or is it hard to get good clear focus of a bug close up in mid

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 1 23:06:41 2023
    Hello,

    Is it me or is it hard to get good clear focus of a bug close up in mid
    air? Like a spider on its web. iPhone 12 mini keeps focusing on the
    background and not the spider up close when I am trying to take a
    pcture!

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)
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  • From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to Ant on Fri Sep 1 19:32:48 2023
    On 2023-09-01 19:06, Ant wrote:
    Hello,

    Is it me or is it hard to get good clear focus of a bug close up in mid
    air? Like a spider on its web. iPhone 12 mini keeps focusing on the background and not the spider up close when I am trying to take a
    pcture!

    There is advice on how to do this all over the web.

    --
    “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything."
    -Ronald Coase

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to Alan Browne on Fri Sep 1 21:12:10 2023
    Alan Browne wrote:
    On 2023-09-01 19:06, Ant wrote:
    Hello,

    Is it me or is it hard to get good clear focus of a bug close
    up in mid
    air? Like a spider on its web. iPhone 12 mini keeps focusing
    on the
    background and not the spider up close when I am trying to
    take a
    pcture!

    There is advice on how to do this all over the web.


    Apparently everywhere except here :)

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  • From Paul Goodman@21:1/5 to Ant on Fri Sep 1 23:22:10 2023
    On Sep 1, 2023, Ant wrote
    (in article<88mdneTpcZ8c82_5nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com>):

    Hello,

    Is it me or is it hard to get good clear focus of a bug close up in mid
    air? Like a spider on its web. iPhone 12 mini keeps focusing on the background and not the spider up close when I am trying to take a
    pcture!

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)

    Have you tried taking the picture in portrait mode? That should put the focus on the subject and blur the background.

    --
    Paul Goodman

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Paul Goodman on Sat Sep 2 22:01:55 2023
    Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> wrote:
    On Sep 1, 2023, Ant wrote
    (in article<88mdneTpcZ8c82_5nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com>):

    Hello,

    Is it me or is it hard to get good clear focus of a bug close up in mid air? Like a spider on its web. iPhone 12 mini keeps focusing on the background and not the spider up close when I am trying to take a
    pcture!

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)

    Have you tried taking the picture in portrait mode? That should put the focus on the subject and blur the background.

    Is that the display orientation (didn't matter which way I held my
    iPhone) or something else I missed?

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  • From Paul Goodman@21:1/5 to Ant on Sun Sep 3 02:11:19 2023
    Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
    Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> wrote:
    On Sep 1, 2023, Ant wrote
    (in article<88mdneTpcZ8c82_5nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com>):

    Hello,

    Is it me or is it hard to get good clear focus of a bug close up in mid
    air? Like a spider on its web. iPhone 12 mini keeps focusing on the
    background and not the spider up close when I am trying to take a
    pcture!

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)

    Have you tried taking the picture in portrait mode? That should put the focus
    on the subject and blur the background.

    Is that the display orientation (didn't matter which way I held my
    iPhone) or something else I missed?


    It is not the display orientation. When you open the camera on your phone
    there should be some options near the bottom, above the button to take the picture. On my phone it has time-lapse, slo-mo, cinematic, video, photo, portrait, and panorama. On your IPhone 12, you may not have all of those,
    but I am guessing you do have portrait. Slide to that option and that
    should allow you to focus on the subject with some background blur.

    —
    Paul Goodman

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