Flickr Fighting against Blogger (and camera shake)

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I messed up again. The links among the images on Flickr and the blog posts on Blogger are now messed up. The point is I can't change some of the picture's properties on Flickr after I publish the picture's link on Blogger.

This because, when changing privacy settings on Flickr, the image gets a new unique number and a new unique URL and we only see "image not found" where you referenced the old URLs.

The same is valid for Lightroom: when republishing with a different privacy level, the image gets a new ID. I am fixing up the links: a little bit every day.

About camera shake!

On my last post, I published a great image on a beach. The colors are perfect but the  image is not sharp! Camera shake....

The image of today is one of that miracles you only get when you can properly support the camera to take a picture.

Camera shake is one of the most common problems on photography for us, common people. We tend to forget this basic detail and trust our stability.And it doesn't matter how cheap or expensive is the camera: camera shake ruins any image (unless showing abstract art).

But, if having something to support your camera, just do it.

We were crossing a bridge in Florence that is far far far away from Ponte Vecchia. When I saw how clear the air was, I thought with myself: I am taking this picture with this lens (a wide angle) and at home, I will crop it.

But I knew if I would crop so tightly, I should have a very very sharp image. To accomplish it, I supported the camera on the bridge and set the shutter to the timer function. Then carefully pressed the shutter and waited until the camera exposed. The advantage of this method is that, if the camera shakes on the millisecond you press the shutter, it still has time to stabilize before the shoot moment. Another technique that helps to avoid camera shake is to lockup the mirror.

Here down the original image. I composed the image having the crop already on mind!