Learning To Be a Paparazzi

Here is a shot of Prof. John Summerscale, the composite materials expert. I grabbed this shot early December 2004, during a graduation day ceremony. I took this as an opportunity to run some test-shots on my newly purchase d-SLR. Just as most men who think that manual are written for suckers, I can be considered to be lumped into the same species. For the first embarassing act, I just can't get the camera to auto focus on anything static, it just kept on hunting. After umpteen abortive attempts, the furious me started checking the settings. OMG, I found that I had accidently tripped the button to continous AF and not single AF. Stupid me! Once that was set, I became a paparazzi again. :)