Let’s say you’d like to soften a background, or soften certain parts of a person’s physical features. You’d use a concept called “depth of field”, where the “field” is everything your camera sees, from the closest objects to the most distant, and the “depth” is how much of that field is in focus (the close [...]

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The photographer’s trick bag can run pretty deep with gizmos and optical sorcery, but this one is downright intuitive. You may not be throwing away your VR lens in favor of the “$1 Image Stabilizer”, but perhaps it’s a good thing to throw in your gear bag for emergencies. From experience, I’m thinking something like: [...]

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So, your clubbing pictures turned out muddy and blurry, your friends are blasting caustic text-messages across your bow about how “great” they look, even though they can not really see their faces.
Even if the above doesn’t describe you, if you’re attempting any type of handheld shots at night, here are some recommendations for blur-free pictures:
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Time for some Q and A. Believe it or not, this is a common one…
Q: I have an f5.6 image stabilized or vibration reduction lens that gives me two more stops of brightness because of the (IS, VR, or whatever). So it’s just like having a f2.8 lens, right?
A: Not exactly. Remember that, while image [...]

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