Imagine this, you are all set up with a tripod, high ISO and so on. You’ve spent a very tedious
few minutes nudging your tripod back and forth until you finally have the subject in focus and
you click the shutter button.
Of course, the viewing screen on the back of your camera isn’t capable of showing the fine detail
you need, but everything looks great.
You pack everything away and lug all your gear the mile or so back to the car.
You finally get home and - excited to see what you’ve got – you download everything into your
computer. It looks fine! You’ve finally got that award winning photo you’ve been working so
hard to create.
Taking your flash drive down to your local photo printer, you ask for a 16x20 to hang on your
wall.
Finally, $100 or so later, you get back your finished, mounted print and it is so blurry you can’t
bear to look at it!
Note: there are several ways to introduce camera shake into an image besides hand holding and a
too long shutter speed. There’s also shutter vibration and mirror vibration.
Oh, before I forget... If you are set up near to a road and a large truck goes rumbling by – the
vibration can introduce shake. Wait a minute or so for the camera to settle down. Same thing
with a sudden gust of wind.
Here are a couple additional camera shake cures you can (and should) use to solve the shutter
and mirror problems.
Shutter Release Fixes
Like pulling a trigger can make you miss a rifle shot, stabbing at the shutter release button can
cause camera shake and blurry pictures. Be gentle when depressing the shutter release button.
Note: Even with a tripod, stabbing at the button can and will induce some camera shake.
But, there’s even better ways to avoid the shutter shake than simply being gentle...