Today we’ll try to figure out the tricks, how to take pictures with hand to achieve the best picture. Hand-held photography is divided into two fundamentally different methods - photography with flash and photography without flash. It is very important to learn how to take pictures handheld without a flash.
How to take pictures with your hands. Photo Tricks from Radozhiva
Remove hand shake
The main problem with handheld photography is trembling of these hands. Hands tremble, even if you have iron, you can still get a blurry picture with long exposures. There are several ways to deal with hand shake:
- Start weightlifting and pump up to hold the camera tighter.
- Mount the camera on a tripod
- Mount the camera on another stable surface.
- Group and lean on a stable surface, while you can shoot in a series to increase the chances of a successful shot.
- Still turn on the flash
- Use an expensive fast lens or camera with a stabilizer.
- And the most interesting is simply reduce shutter speed
Since there is no time for athletics, money for a tripod and an external flash, just like a stable surface, you will have to experiment with shutter speed. To get a good sharp shot without grease - need to shoot at short exposures. Shorter excerpt - That will make it more likely that when shooting handheld there will be a sharp shot.
How to make the shutter speed shorter?
There are only two ways. The first - open maximum aperture. The larger the aperture, the shorter excerpt. The diaphragm is the number F on the camera. And to open the aperture means lower the number F. For example, shoot at F5.6, to reduce the shutter speed you need to open the aperture, for example to F3.5, while excerpt automatically decrease somewhere in 2-3 times. If you do not know how to open the aperture, find the aperture priority mode on the camera, usually it is called A or AV (aperture value) or just read the instructions. If you have reached the maximum and the aperture is still not enough, you should think about a fast lens.
The second way - increase ISO. The higher the ISO, the shorter excerpt it will be and the easier it will be to get a successful shot. Normally, the ISO changes in the camera menu. On compact digital cameras (on soap dishes), I do not recommend raising the ISO above 800. On advanced SLR cameras, you can set the ISO to taste. More details about the pitfalls of ISO in my article how to configure ISO.
How to shoot in super short shutter speeds with the effect of stopping time, you can read here.
What is the maximum shutter speed? Golden Rule:
There is a beautiful Golden Rule. Need to be removed from handwhose numerical value should be greater than the effective focal length of the lens. Exposure usually measured in fractions of a second. For example, excerpt 1 / 10s indicates that the camera takes a picture within one tenth of a second. Likewise, 1/1250 says the shutter speed is very short and the picture is taken in just one thousand two hundred and fiftieth of a second. With such a short shutter speed, no hand shake is a hindrance. So, if you have a focal length lens X mm, then you need to shoot at a shutter speed no longer 1 / X seconds. Example if you have a focal length lens 50 mm, then you need to shoot no longer 1 / 50 with, usually standard shutter speeds faster than 1/50 s are 1/60, 1/80, 1/100 of a second, etc. Thus, it follows that shooting handheld with wide-angle lenses with a short focal length is much easier than with body lenses with a long focal length.
Attention: when using cameras with a high pixel density, the golden rule requires a little correction. For example, when you shoot on a camera with a lot of pixels, Nikon D7100, D5200, Canon 600D and the like, you should use shorter shutter speeds than using the golden rule. This is due to the high sensitivity of cameras with a large number of megapixels to micro-lubrication due to movement, in more detail here.
How to apply all this in business?
To avoid blur during handheld shooting, you need to open the aperture as much as possible and reduce shutter speed. If the shutter speed does not fall under the golden rule, then you need to raise the ISO. Well, if nothing helps, then you need to use a flash.
Other ways to overcome hand shake:
Jitter can also be overcome using lenses with stabilizers, which give a gain in 2-4 shutter speeds. Such lenses are slightly more expensive than conventional ones, but they are worth it. You can look, for example, at Nikon 70-300mm f / 4.5-5.6G IF-ED AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor. More details about stabilizers in my article Image Stabilizers. Also, some cameras have built-in stabilization in the camera. When shooting with your hands, it is better to include these types of stabilizers. But some cameras have a stabilization software solution, it almost always spoils the picture with high ISOs. And some more cameras. eg Pentax K30, have a stabilization system built into the camera itself. If all else fails, you should already think about a tripod or monopod.
Everything is complicated and nothing is clear - there is a way out!
Just turn on the flash. With flash everything is much simpler. The camera will decide everything on its own and you will almost always get a sharp shot. To achieve the best result, you can lower the ISO and set the aperture value depending on the task.
Conclusions
The shorter the shutter speed, the easier it is to shoot. The higher the ISO, the shorter the shutter speed. The more open the aperture, the shorter the shutter speed. When shooting handheld it helps a lot Golden Ruledescribed above.
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... in the sense that your hands do not tremble? I don’t understand that someone is taking pictures with outstretched arms? Even while standing: a steady posture, elbows are supported on the body and in the telephoto view (200mm) only heartbeats with micro-oscillations are visible after each blow. Maybe 1/100 pass. Or try a good sharpness with a stabilizer.
EGF = Equivalent Focal Length
What is the golden rule? What are you writing about? A lot of water. I'll write insanely easier.
When shooting with hands, the shutter speed should be no longer than 1/60 of a second and there will never be any blur with any lens and any camera.
For night shots, add ISO not more than 800 and open the aperture by 2,3. and there will never be any grease
At night, at 800 iso, with an aperture of 2,3 ??? the exposure will be 3 seconds somewhere ... Will there be no lubrication?
Well, he apparently means that there will be no grease, so after exposure to 1/60 and ISO 800 there will really be no grease :) if you take a picture in the dead of night :)
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Lies, here 1/125 does not help with canon30d and ef 50mm stm
Yes, you sho? Take something other than a whale, and look at the photos not on the camera screen, and then give out stupid tips
I apologize, it is true only for DSLRs, I have not tried it on others. My device is Nikon d4s
I would like to look at the jovial fellow who removes a 500 mm lens from his hands at 1/60, on d4s, in motion.
Plus))
Your reviews are amazing! A lot of useful information. Thank you for that.
I am looking for Jupiter 21M or A. Do not tell me where you can get inexpensive in Kiev?
I strongly recommend reading: The book by IA Kosinsky "Young amateur photographer" from the series "Know and be able to" is a practical guide for beginners and is intended for high school students.
The author sequentially acquaints the reader with all the photographic processes, from charging the device with film to finishing finished prints. At the same time, along with the photography technique, special attention is paid to the choice of shooting objects and the basics of frame construction, which is the most difficult for a beginner amateur.
URL: http://publ.lib.ru/ARCHIVES/Z/%27%27Znay_i_umey%27%27/Kosinskiy_I.A._Yunomu_fotolyubitelyu.(1961).% 5Bdjv-fax% 5D.zip
It's strange why no one talks about how to reduce shake, as if this is a diagnosis and cannot be changed, hands tremble whenever they are tense, and especially when you need to photograph something)) there is, for example, shutter speed, focal length, aperture, ISO, aperture , and they are trying so hard to calculate this down to a millimeter, but why, for example, do not they calculate how “fast” the hands are shaking?
shake your hands.
They are too lazy to think and analyze. It's easier to refer to the experience of predecessors, who noticed the dependence of shutter speed on the focal length of the lens when shooting handheld. At the same time, no one explains why when shooting handheld, the maximum allowable shutter speed is 1/30 of a second. And really why? If you take off hand-held, for example, a wall clock with a 100mm lens at a distance of three meters with a shutter speed of 1/5 second, then we get an image with a clearly visible shake - ghosting and tripping of the image contours, which means that the camera in a time interval of 1/5 seconds I managed to make 3-5 shifts, which means that due to the trembling of my hands I made vibrations with a frequency of 15-25 per second. In this case, you can indirectly calculate the approximate speed, it will be 1,25 mm / s. - this is for a healthy, sober person.
I think a person whose hands do not tremble is most likely sick or just a corpse)))
like something bad.
Or can sick people not be photographed?
By the way, how can a corpse shake hands?
Well, if you take his hand and shake it will be!)) Read carefully.
you can shake hands with anyone. You are illogical.
Or a master of sports in shooting.
Are you logical when you ask, "By the way, how can a corpse's hands tremble?" Read the comments carefully.
Yes, it's good for you to shake corpses, as if there is nothing more to shake. :) There are several types of body vibration, (damn, also an ambiguous phrase), the main ones are breathing, heartbeat and muscle tension. You can learn to cope with this through training. Whoever is engaged in martial arts, he must know, in order to bring the movement to automatism, it must be repeated from three to five thousand times, preferably correctly, and not anyhow. And if someone thinks that there is some kind of miracle - poses that turn a person into a tripod, plus a magical breathing technique and cardiac arrest by the power of thought and other such crap, then of course there is no point in training for such people, it is enough for them to know that “there is such a technique” and "I download it on the Internet and quickly master it." In short workouts and workouts again.
I support her!
You swing your hands, carry tripods with you, set up an expo-pair, iso ... And the model, moves!
From personal experience: in mid-June he took part in military training as a grenade launcher. After a week of dragging on the back of an RPG with AKSU, a tripod weighing 1,8 kg seems like a light fluff. Yes, and shooting on a telephoto with hands has become much easier.
From personal experience of service in the native DCBF, read the manual on tactical training of a sniper.
You will not find the best preparation for handheld shooting.))
Dear Dmitry, wrote in the 14th year. that on crope you also need to be able to multiply))
Am I shooting on Helik 58 on FujiX? 1/30 excellent result, working shutter speeds up to 1/10 from the minimum focusing distance, so you have to either buy or drink the calculator and drop the dumbbell and pull))
photos without processing, only reduced quality in FS
f2.8 1 / 15s the distance is 1m and the glass there is not just standing there, but as a result of exposure to the vestibular apparatus))
Arkady Shapoval, thank you for this resource and your articles!
This is the best, most understandable and written in an accessible language, for people starting to be interested in photography, which I have seen on the network (and I reviewed and re-read, over the past few years, a lot)!
You make a very significant contribution to the education of people who are interested in photo and near-photographic topics.
And to give knowledge to a suffering person is much more valuable and noble than to help him financially! And yes all your labors and undertakings will be rewarded three times!
http://www.bestnewart.ru/about/news/fotos'emka_s_ruk.html here is still more detailed
Advertising courses on photography, you could immediately write :)
I gained more knowledge from this site than from all the statues in recent years !!! THANKS to the author!
And I take it off with the help of such tips:
1.become as you like. For me, the best pose is the arrow pose, a little half-turn and / or with the left leg protruding forward.
2. Support / twist the lens with your left hand from the bottom in the middle, with your right hand on the buttons. I started with 18-135mm, but even now I also keep fifty dollars :).
3. Always hold your elbows or simply hold it closer to your body.
4. breathing should be calm and only hold on a little when you press the shutter release.
Arm muscles can be strengthened without any gym. We take dumbbells of 1-1.5 kg (so that there is a light feeling of heaviness, but not heavy!) Or, as an option, bottle water and hold it straight in front of us with outstretched arms (palms, wrists, elbows upside down, do not bend or twist them). Just stand upright and hold at a right angle to the body, do not lower! Even breathing!
The second exercise is the same, only arms to the sides, of course, at the level of the shoulders.
Time is a reference point for well-being and physical preparation. Someone even a lot of minutes, someone 5 norms. Rest 1-2 min. and repeat 5-10 times - in principle, you can choose yourself. Well, don't get ready for sports :)
For a tangible result, they do it for months, with an increase in weight, time, etc.
Thank you very much!
Hello! Tell me Nikon D 5100 .. I don’t know where to set the shutter speed
And didn’t the thought strike you turn to the instructions for the camera?
The article is relevant for me, after all, did Tair 3c buy it !! I think if you talk with biathletes, they can give some practical advice on how to deal with hand tremors, because the rifle weighs 4 kg, and they put bullets in a tiny target from 50 meters !!
There are different rifles. And there is its own technique. After several kilometers of skiing, keeping your breath steady and your rifle straight and hitting the target is not as easy as shooting with a camera :) but in general, yes, training is needed. Well, this is my eldest son, a former biathlete :)
Arkady, quite by accident came to your site, read both the article and your comments on the “criticism” of the “photographers”. You are doing a VERY NECESSARY and RIGHT job helping novice photographers! There is almost no literature left for them, and people are very reluctant to read, so all that remains is to look for help on the Internet. And you answer specifically and reasonably enough to the questions posed. I read and remembered myself what questions arose 50 years ago: someone would prompt and teach me this way ...
There is no need to multiply by the crop factor! If you turn on mosk - you will understand!
And I had microsmaz on the D70s!
I found a description of an interesting method of how to make the blur in the photo less noticeable in the GIMP editor: http://www.instructables.com/id/Reduce-motion-blur-in-The-GIMP/ I tried to process one photo, as a result, visually blurring is less noticeable. As I understand it, the method is similar to the “Unsharp mask”, only taking into account the size and direction of the blur. The author also writes something about the fact that the blur on the added layer is “subtracted” from the blur in the original photo. What came out for me (see photo) looks rough, well, how it came out.
The original photo is:
It was possible, but did not see. I want to add 2 more ways:
1. In manual mode, set a slow shutter speed, shoot in RAW and stretch the frame post-processing.
2. shoot against the sun. If you need to click directly on the go, it helps. Then, too, can be pulled out. Yes, the frame will not be so contrasting, etc., but sometimes it is better than nothing or full soap)
I apologize, not long, but rather short)
Terrific explanation, many thanks!