Avoiding the shakes

Camera shake can turn the sharpest of shots into regretful missed opportunities

Set the correct shutter speed Even if you have accurately focused on your subject, you can still ruin the sharpness with even the slightest camera shake. This is where the camera moves during the exposure, but the shutter speed is not fast enough to avoid showing the movement. Camera shake can look like a slight ghosting on your image, and although Adobe has a camera shake reduction filter in Photoshop, you’ll want to try and avoid it in the first place. A rule of thumb is that you should try to use a shutter speed equal to, or higher than, the focal length of the lens – for a 200mm lens, try to use 1/250 sec; or up to a stop higher at 1/500 sec if you are using a…

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