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Originally Posted by psili
Do you use a tripod or hold your camera in hand? And if in hand, what is your shutter speed and other settings?
I'm not a photographer, but like to take pictures and if I don't use a tripod the pics usually turn out crappy due to me not having a super steady hand. Any ideas would be appreciated.
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Everything I shoot is handheld...tripods are cool if our shooting the moon or
something but when your working with a girl who is constantly moving...you
have to be moving as well.
In regards to shutter speeds, what shutter speed I might use has to do with
the lighting situation that I'm in and what lens I might be using. A longer lens
will require a higher shutter speed to cut down on motion blurr. A shorter
lens will allow you to shoot with a slower shutter speed. Here's a little trick
to help you decide which shutter speed is best for the lens that your using.
If your shooting with a 50mm lens, your shutter speed needs to be at least
50th of a second. If your shooting with a 300mm lens, your shutter speed
needs to be at least 300th of a second - make sense? One thing to remember
about the higher end digital cameras is that when you put a 300mm lens
onto that camera...it's not really a 300mm anymore. My Canon 10D's require
me to multiply my lens mm by 1.6 to get the real mm lens that I'm using. So,
a 300mm lens on my camera is really a 480mm lens. And if I have a 480mm
lens on my camera, I want to use a shutter speed of 500th of a second or
faster.