I would go much further with tip 1, Shoot Like a Shooter. If you are hand holding, hold the camera properly, with your left hand fully supporting the lens underneath. In Live View (P&S and Camera Phones too) that might not be possible and you might have to grab the camera on the sides, but it shows. Press your elbows firmly to your sides. Plant your feet firmly about as far apart as your shoulders, perhaps a little more, one foot a smidgen in front of the other one also gives you some back-to-front stability. *Exhale* and shoot. *Gently* release, but I think he says that further on too. Some folks thinking holding your breath in is a good idea. It isn't. And for the very adventurous, try to listen to your heat beat and shoot *between* pulses. A classic sniper tip. And yes, as said right up front, try to find some external support somewhere for your body. It all shows and is worth just a little thought every time you snap a shot.
Tip 4 about "sharpening" in Camera Raw/Lightroom/Photoshop and similar. Quite correct, but for the wrong reasons I think. It's not that the computer or Internet is a *sharper" medium than print, but that image files there are typically a lot smaller. So sharpened edges (which show up as small pixel borders of white against dark, or black against light) must be a lot narrower for the same visual effect. You might notice that if you upload here to 365 a large image that looks good full size, it can have "glowy" edges that weren't noticeable before. Especially if the edges are high contrast to begin with. The effect is also typically seen in the over-sharpened HDR look, often even edited in on purpose. I am afraid I don't admire the effect at all. The reason for this is mostly because the image is reduced significantly in pixel count (sometimes 5 times on linear dimensions or more with large megapixel cameras), and the "edge" which might have been 2-3 pixels in a big version and quite visually acceptible can't reduce further than 1. In a rather perverse way, huge megapixel cameras can make presenting on the internet somewhat of a challenge, even requiring hand editing out of the worst induced "glowy" edges when the huge pixel count is brought down to 1mp or less. As here on 365. If you down-size before you upload you can control all of this yourself. The author sort of says this, but not very accurately or clearly.
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I would go much further with tip 1, Shoot Like a Shooter. If you are hand holding, hold the camera properly, with your left hand fully supporting the lens underneath. In Live View (P&S and Camera Phones too) that might not be possible and you might have to grab the camera on the sides, but it shows. Press your elbows firmly to your sides. Plant your feet firmly about as far apart as your shoulders, perhaps a little more, one foot a smidgen in front of the other one also gives you some back-to-front stability. *Exhale* and shoot. *Gently* release, but I think he says that further on too. Some folks thinking holding your breath in is a good idea. It isn't. And for the very adventurous, try to listen to your heat beat and shoot *between* pulses. A classic sniper tip. And yes, as said right up front, try to find some external support somewhere for your body. It all shows and is worth just a little thought every time you snap a shot.
Tip 4 about "sharpening" in Camera Raw/Lightroom/Photoshop and similar. Quite correct, but for the wrong reasons I think. It's not that the computer or Internet is a *sharper" medium than print, but that image files there are typically a lot smaller. So sharpened edges (which show up as small pixel borders of white against dark, or black against light) must be a lot narrower for the same visual effect. You might notice that if you upload here to 365 a large image that looks good full size, it can have "glowy" edges that weren't noticeable before. Especially if the edges are high contrast to begin with. The effect is also typically seen in the over-sharpened HDR look, often even edited in on purpose. I am afraid I don't admire the effect at all. The reason for this is mostly because the image is reduced significantly in pixel count (sometimes 5 times on linear dimensions or more with large megapixel cameras), and the "edge" which might have been 2-3 pixels in a big version and quite visually acceptible can't reduce further than 1. In a rather perverse way, huge megapixel cameras can make presenting on the internet somewhat of a challenge, even requiring hand editing out of the worst induced "glowy" edges when the huge pixel count is brought down to 1mp or less. As here on 365. If you down-size before you upload you can control all of this yourself. The author sort of says this, but not very accurately or clearly.