Reducing Shake When Shooting Handheld
Monday, May 16, 2005
Camera shake is something that a photographer becomes much more aware when shooting digital. You don’t have to project the slides or run through a large print to know that. What you thought to be a good shot could well be suffering from camera shake - your computer shows it all. The solution of course is to use a tripod but that may not always be possible.I accidentally discovered a workaround yesterday when I was out shooting. It is fairly simple. All one needs to do is shoot everything twice! Put the camera in continuous mode and hold the shutter long enough to get two successive shots. You will notice that the second shot is less likely to suffer from camera shake. To explain more - when we press the shutter release button with the fingers, we are making some hand moment and that is very likely to induce some vibrations in the camera. But during the second shot, your fingers stay pressed and you are not making any kind of voluntary hand moments. That should keep the camera a little more stable than during the first shot.
I tested out some shots like this and the results seemed to prove the point. But the difference was not very remarkable.
The pictures below are the best differences I have got over a couple of test runs. These pictures were taken at low light - shutter speed of 1/6 at ISO 800.
First and second images. 100% crops. See the improved sharpness in the second image.
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posted by Arun at 9:13 AM
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3 Comments:
Now thats a nice handy tip...but I seriously didnot understand one single word of the previous posts...what can I say?! I am an illiterate when it comes down to photography though my soul burns out for pictures :(
well a good find for sure
actually the shake effects more while using a digital camera
however something that i came to know from one of my friend(whose uncle is into photography and stuff) is that when u dont have a stable support for ur camera then the photographer must stick his left(in general)hand to his body and do the adjustments with his right hand(which is loose).
comes as quite a handy technique for me.
Also finding anything you can brace yourself against, helps as well. One trick I use if shooting in a garden and I don't have my tripod handy, is to sit down in a chair and rest my elbows on my thighs, in essence creating a tripod. Works quite well. Nice blog by the way - I'll be back to visit. :)
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