{"id":23,"date":"2005-08-18T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:33:40","slug":"furry-objects-in-the-mirror-may-appear-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Furry Objects in the Mirror May Appear in Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rraz.ca\/photo-blog\/uploaded_images\/chipmonk_0081-716737.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/rraz.ca\/photo-blog\/uploaded_images\/chipmonk_0081-716737.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>After trying unsuccessfully to catch this little guy randomly scurrying about I relized my camera was in single shot mode and I had to release the button for each refocus. By the time I figured it out all I got was this shot minus a piece of tail. When taking pictures of furry animals I have not had much luck with the Canon autofocus function.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rraz.ca\/photo-blog\/uploaded_images\/chin_0222-711802.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/rraz.ca\/photo-blog\/uploaded_images\/chin_0222-711802.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>At the Chin Picnic I took several out-of-focus shots at the dog show but only this one where the dog was sitting still turned out. Most of the time I have the camera on center spot focus, this may be a mistake as the fur is too fine to allow a focus lock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rraz.ca\/photo-blog\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0208-745568.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;display: block;text-align: center;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/rraz.ca\/photo-blog\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0208-745568.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Ugh not another pet shot!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After trying unsuccessfully to catch this little guy randomly scurrying about I relized my camera was in single shot mode and I had to release the button for each refocus. By the time I figured it out all I got was this shot minus a piece of tail. When taking pictures of furry animals I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}