Focal Lock- A lifesaver for your pictures!

You apparently took a good photo: Picked put the subjects in middle of frame assuming your camera or smartphone will know where to focus and clicked. However what actually happened is that your camera had no idea which object in the picture is your focus. As a result, your intended subject is treated as foreground and thrown out of focus. 

Being creative with your photos like applying rule of thirds technique, often they end up in this disaster if you do not know about focal lock. Now camera and mobile industry are producing products with the facial recognition or smile detection technology, which tells the camera where to focus. But not always your subject is a human face. That's why you need to know how to use focal lock. 

How To Use Focal Lock

• Aim At your subject
• Put your subject in the center of your frame.
• With the subject in center point, halfway press the shutter button (do not press fully) to sure it ''locks'' your subject in focus.  
• Without letting go of the button (still half pressed), move your camera as you want to shoot the image now.
• Once you get it all set, now press the button completely and you'll get the right focusing in the image even of your subject is not now centered. 

This technique is useful in many other ways, for example in macro shots when you want to focus on a flower off the center, or in landscape when you want to focus more on a tree in the foreground off center, or as i mentioned above applying rule of thirds to the picture. It is something a photographer needs to have on his fingertips and beginners should start practicing in early days.