If you have shaky hands, then your primary photo nemeses are 1) low light and 2) closeup shots ("macros"). Lower light means longer shutter speeds, and once you get down below about 1/30th of a second, it doesn't take much to get some blur. 1/4 second or longer? Tripod time unless you have exceptionally steady hands. The good news is, modern digital cameras and phones have such sensitive image sensors that they need far less light to keep a faster exposure than in the old days. The overwhelming number of your shots are perfectly sharp, so fret ye not. The ones I commented on the other day...
... were related to #2 above, close-ups. Depth of field-- the distance from front to back in the image-- narrows the focused region the closer you place the camera to the thing being photographed. Thus, sensing / adjusting focus becomes much more critical, and so amplifies any shake in the camera. All of the shots that I noticed were a mite soft were close-ups, and so I assumed that was the reason, and so the suggestion to see if your phone had a specific macro mode available (apparently some do).
I have some minor shake in my hands at times, simple age-related trembling, but if I try to take a shot in low light with my camera, it's still enough to make the image fuzzy unless I can brace the camera against a steady object somewhere-- often not available. (Slow shutter speed).
Whether or not it might help you, what I do that sometimes works is to frame the shot, inhale slowly and deeply, then exhale slowly and press the shutter somewhere mid-exhale. Doesn't always work, but a fair number of times it does, and is easy to do.
And sometimes, you like the pic enough that a tad of the fuzzy is fine. This one was taken near dusk and cold out to boot! I used a software sharpening tool, but you can see it's still a bit soft. But hey-- cute ducks!
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Date: 2021-05-02 07:12 am (UTC)... were related to #2 above, close-ups. Depth of field-- the distance from front to back in the image-- narrows the focused region the closer you place the camera to the thing being photographed. Thus, sensing / adjusting focus becomes much more critical, and so amplifies any shake in the camera. All of the shots that I noticed were a mite soft were close-ups, and so I assumed that was the reason, and so the suggestion to see if your phone had a specific macro mode available (apparently some do).
I have some minor shake in my hands at times, simple age-related trembling, but if I try to take a shot in low light with my camera, it's still enough to make the image fuzzy unless I can brace the camera against a steady object somewhere-- often not available. (Slow shutter speed).
Whether or not it might help you, what I do that sometimes works is to frame the shot, inhale slowly and deeply, then exhale slowly and press the shutter somewhere mid-exhale. Doesn't always work, but a fair number of times it does, and is easy to do.
And sometimes, you like the pic enough that a tad of the fuzzy is fine. This one was taken near dusk and cold out to boot! I used a software sharpening tool, but you can see it's still a bit soft. But hey-- cute ducks!