From the course: Learning Your Nikon DSLR Camera
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Reducing camera shake
- A lot of folks when shooting will shoot with a handheld camera, and that's fine, but you have to realize that this is a little bit heavier than a smartphone. Sure, you can hold it one-handed if you're relatively strong, but it's not super stable. So typically what you're going to want to do is wrap my fingers around the grip, and you see that this finger can easily move up to the trigger. And there's notches here to make that a little bit simpler. Once you've done that, the camera should hang and feel pretty well. Then take your other hand and cup it under the lens, and you see that this makes it easy to make any adjustments that you might need to. So now I can easily adjust the camera and modify the lens controls. Now, once you have this with those braced, it's very easy to take the camera up to your eye, depending on right eye or left eye, how you prefer shooting, and you can tuck those elbows in a bit and it's going to be a lot more steady. This'll cut down on shake. But what I…
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