How To Reduce Shaking

It has nothing to do with your efficiency. A lot of people believe that when a newbie start shooting, her hand shakes during clicking the shutter; as a result the image gets blurred and appears to be shaken.

This can be a reason behind shaky image; but when the same happens with an expert photographer or while shooting with a tripod – what is your explanation? Here is mine:

It happens due to the to and fro movement of the mirror inside your camera. The mirror is heavy; it goes up when you click the shutter and then comes down to close the shutter. As a result, the camera shakes and the effect is observed on the image.

To avoid this, you should enable mirror lock-up while shooting. Just click the shutter and let the camera take care of everything else. Look at the images below: the first was shot without mirror lock-up and the second one was taken with mirror lock-up enabled.

Without mirror lock-up:



With mirror lock-up:



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