- Change camera to A mode
- Change focus mode to AF-S
- Change focus area to Single or Pin-point
- Move the focus square to where the eye is
- Half-press the shutter button to focus, and hold it in place
- Full-press the shutter button to take the picture
For portrait:
Using zoom in 28~70mm range, use f/4 or f/2.8 as the aperture
Using zoom in 70~200mm range, use f/4 or f/5.6 as the aperture
You can always go to f/2.8 or f/2.0 with the longer zoom lens, the background will be really blurred. Also, the wider the aperture, the thinner the depth of the focus. With a super long lens, very wide aperture, and relatively short camera-to-subject distance, you may have one eye in focus and the other eye blurred.