The eyes aren't in focus.
/photosnob

The eyes aren't on the same plane.
/tenchincallimitationsit'salreadyatf16andbesidessoftfocusisgoodforoldskin

I was just kidding^^ With a fantastic beard like that, who cares about soft focus?

I do *sob* haha

Hmm, it seems like your hat and ear are a little sharper than the eye that is closest to use.
What camera are you using?

It's not the camera, it's the running back and forth self portrait issue. Placing myself back in the focal plane after checking the last batch of photos is, you know, hard.

If I could remotely trigger an autofocus I'd be better off, but I like to keep AF and shutter discrete for speed when shooting, and the remote I'm using doesn't allow a half-press anyway.

Your camera doesn't focus when you trigger it wireless? Mine does. If it is set to AF I just have to hit the button, it sets the focus and then it takes the photo.

Yeah, like I mentioned, I prefer the immediacy of keeping the AF off of the shutter, so it's never set up to focus when you actually take a photo. I prefer timing over precise focus, basically.

And I am a little oldfashioned when it comes to portraits, I would prefer perfect focus on the eyes.
As long as you don't move much the focal plane doesn't shift much as well. As long as the camera is set to phase detection AF it's still gonna be rather fast and immediate.

I shoot a lot of bees. It needs to be fast fast!

And I might be even more old school... I only use the center focus point for AF, and focus and reframe to compose a shot. I only use AF to get close, then rock back and forth or twist the lens after reframing to focus by eye so exactly what I want is crispy. That's why the camera's always configured to take AF out of the loop when actually shooting. I don't like it's decisions, and I'd rather do it manually. Then I can only blame myself. I'm using ancient film techniques, yo! Not that I ever shot film. I just like things as manual as possible.

Of course this workflow doesn't work so well for selfies, but lazy so fuck it. :) A nice smile is a nice smile. I have plenty of others that are technical. :)

Ah I see.

I actually think that many people are overdoing it with perfect sharpness these days. The older lenses were beautifully soft and had a lot of character. I just think that in a portrait sharpness is important to add an acutal focus to the image. The first thing you usually look at is the eyes.