MOVING IMAGES

ESSENTIAL PHOTO SKILLS MADE EASY

1 HOUR

As conventional wisdom has it, you should avoid moving your camera at all costs during an exposure, lest your shots suffer from camera shake. The usual solution is to shoot at a high enough shutter speed so that the involuntary movements we all make go unrecorded. The ‘one over’ rule dictates using a shutter speed at least as fast as your lens’s focal length, so 1/50 sec on a 50mm lens. If you can’t shoot at a high enough shutter speed, then you need to place your camera on a tripod, and for those times when you need to shoot handheld at slower shutter speeds you can