These are blurry images. I was trying to take a shot of some running water indoors on a cloudy day, and was holding the camera far from my body. While a camera with a stabilizer might have made a different, I doubt it – and since the conservatory I was at requires permits for using a tripod, that was also out of the question.
So what happened? They came out blurry.
Blur and grain are the bane of an amateur photographer’s existence – it happens in product photos, it happens in action photos, it just freakin’ happens.
Which is why a few professional photographers kindly passed on this wisdom: if you can’t use a tripod, try to find something to rest your camera against. I have also learned in the absence of a solid surface that holding my camera with my thums at the top and the rest of my fingers stabilizing it towards the bottom can help. Over the course of the summer, there has been less blur but it’s not all gone. And who knows – maybe one day I’ll shell out for a tripod permit!
