How to hold your Digital SLR Camera like a PRO
In this free photography tip:
No more camera shake & blurry images | How to hold your camera effectively.
I noticed in my last photography workshop that most of my beginner students where not holding their brand new digital SLR camera’s properly.
The way they were holding their camera’s led to camera shake and muscle fatigue. No one wants their images to be blurry just because they are not holding their camera effectively.
So I decided to make a short video where I show you the following:
How to hold your camera like a pro
Supporting camera on left hand
3 points of contact with the camera
How to adjust focus and zoom while holding camera
How to control camera setting with right hand
Shooting in landscape and portrait modes
Which way to turn the camera when moving from landscape to portrait modes
Every little bit helps. By putting little hints up it helps to understand photography & use of camera. Thanks Brent
No worries, glad you like. Brent
Really helpful.thanx and good luck for your projects
Very helpful. Thank you!
Brent, thank you for this free video trainings! It´s much more easier and better to learn photography by watching you! If you read a book it´s not the same than you watch it on Video. So we can learn it step by step.
Also I can polish up my Australian English for our friends from Adelaide
Ha Ha. My accent is South African, American and Aussie. Do you like it? Brent
thank you for sharing,..it usefull for beginner like me..
and useful for a longer time SLR user like me. Though I’ve looked like I’m using the correct technique I can see from watching your video that I’ve not been supporting with the left hand properly. Hard to avoid camera shake if one is both supporting and pressing the shutter with the right hand. Thanks for the lesson.
Yeah Trevor, I only noticed this once I was teaching my photographers who work for me. Easy to miss this simple technique – but it will save you in the long run. B
Thank you Brent! It really feels like learning concepts from a friend.
Saludos desde Argentina!
tahnks friend
Another suggestion is how to put the head in front of the camera, that is, not to put the head just right in front of the viewfinder because your nose maybe touch the camera. The head must be softly turn on the left is you are watching with the right eye.
Any advise for throse of us who wear glasses? Also, how do I use the adjustment on the eye peace to correct the power of my glasses?
Most cameras have an adjustment on the eyepiece for glasses. Check it out. Brent
It is very informative and useful topic. Thanks.
Thanks for starting me off, looking forward to the rest of the videos
Ben
Thanks so much Brent, well done, concise instruction. I've been recommending your instruction to photographer friends, and sharing your free .pdf.
thats very useful to me as i want to learn more about basics of photography
Thanks for the insights. You have me going over all of my techiniqes for holding the DSLR and i use most of them just as you explain. I don't conciously tuck my arm into my ribs for each shot as you suggest. I do if I am purposly trying to obtain more stabiltiy but not all the time. I am sure if I start thinking about this and doing this automatically it will improve my camera stability for the better.
Brent, I find most online training to be poorly done and a sorry substitute for text. However, based on this first installment, I believe this series is going to be a pleasant exception.
Although I've been shooting photos for a lot of years, this video showed me I may not have been paying enough attention to points of support for the camera.
Thanks for the kind comments Lane Lester – I'm sure you will LOVE this series – Plus checkout some of my premium videos too. Cheers, Brent
I like that you gently remind the viewer several times to use the camera strap. Your instructions are clear, and easy to remember, and you mention the most important points several times: supporting the camera with the hand braced against the body, use of the strap …in case your hands get tired means no chance of a costly accident! Thank you.
Yup, I have learned the hard way too!!!
At the moment I feel like a sponge absorbing as much info as I can get. I've had my DSLR for a few years now and have always shot in "Auto".. Can't wait to get out of auto and start using the camera properly. Thanks Brent. I do agree with one comment further down the page though….can you give us hints for those of us that wear glasses. I try to not use my glasses when taking photo's but I'm sure there will come a time when I can no longer do that.
Would also love to do a hands on course with you….Any chance of you doing any around the Central Coast????
Hi Tracey. There is a setting on the eye piece for the camera, turn it clockwise and anti-clockwise until you see perfectly through the eye piece with your glasses on. Might do a video on this soon. B
Some nice tips here. Your description of the "3 points of contact" way to hold a camera has helped correct my shooting. It's an easy way to remember how to hold the camera. Thanks very much for sharing qulity tips!
thank you so much.. it relly helps
Thanks for the info, love your video.
Very good , clear and easy to understand instructions. Thank you
hellow brient i like my first day photographic trainning how to hold digital SLR camera
Hi Brent,
Love watching your videos for really helpful tips especially for a beginner like me! Such an eye candy too!
thanks!
Funny, who is the eye candy? Maybe I should bring a model with me next time. Brent
brent,thank you very much,very helpful.
Thank you Brent, Well explained and presented
a wonderful start to help us on the on the "Photographic Highway"
cheers
Thanks Brett! Such a blessing to have run into your site=) I appreciate your passion and your kindess for sharing this with us!
thanks!!!
Thank you Brent , really helpful.
Excellent tips on how to hold the camera. congratulations
Very much enjoy your videos on photography tips. I first used digital when it used a three inch floppy disc. I have learned more the past couple of weeks than with other videos. I am not a professional by any means, just an ole man who enjoys taking pictures.
I think you are going to love these photo tips and tricks. Brent
Very helpful love your vedio thanks Brent!!!
Really Nice and very helpful…
Thankyou so much – I have been holding my camera the wrong way – followed your tutorial and it feels so much better and more comfortable. Much appreciated.
Many people get into the wrong habits early, glad I could help. Brent
I cannot wait for the next video. I’m working hard trying to figure out my new Canon 5d mark 2… Thanks for such great guidance!!
Glad you like it Valrie, the next one is all about tripods. Brent
Although it may seem simple tips, you have brought home these to novices; especially the 3 point support. Such support was a must in the past when you did not have all the image stabilization lens. Good job and thanks.
Brent,
Thanks for my first video the tips on hold to hold a camera was great looking forward to the next viedo.
Your welcome Luis. Enjoy. Brent