Any of these solutions minimizes camera
shake at the moment of exposure.
If your camera has a manual focus mode, I also recommend using it. Since you??™re going to
take anywhere between three and nine separate exposures of the same scene, you really want the
focus to be identical in each shot. Here??™s what I do: I press halfway down on the camera??™s shutter
release, which allows the camera??™s automatic focus mode to lock in the perfect focus. Then, I
change the camera from auto-focus to manual focus, locking in that focus for all my subsequent
photos. If your camera does not work that way, you might need to be a little extra careful about
making sure the focus doesn??™t change between shots.
Finally, you need to control the exposure so each photo has a slightly different setting. The
easiest way to do this is to use your camera??™s bracket exposure control. Bracketing is a setting
that tells the computer to take a series of photos with a range of exposure??”such as one stop
underexposed, the correct exposure, and one stop overexposed. My camera lets me adjust the
amount of exposure change (such as a half-stop or a full stop between photos) and the number of
exposures in the series (3, 5, 7, and even 9). If your camera has a bracket mode, this is definitely
the way to go??”set it up, hold down the shutter release, and the camera will run through the
entire bracketed series, one shot after the next, stopping when it??™s done.
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