Manual Focus on Canon Vixia HG20

[mcfly]

hey all, i am having trouble getting my manual focus to focus on only one part of the shot. for example, i'll have a focus point very close to the camera, and something i want to manually focus over to further away. why is it whenever i try to do this everything goes blurry at once? i've tried changing the F setting for my aperture and nothing really changed. any advice is greatly appreciated, thanks!

[lordsmurf]

Small aperture (big hole), and between focal lengths of subjects. That's my guess.
Would need to see samples to be sure.

[mcfly]

Thanks for the reply. Could you elaborate as to what you mean by between focal lengths a bit? I also, I maybe should have mentioned I had a qide angle lens attached when doing this. Would that affect the effect at all?