A lot of the text books and information I have read on the web has always expressed the same thing in almost the same exact terms: "take a deep breath, slowly exhale while pressing the shutter button. Holding your breath is the exact opposite of what you want to do."
Then I read something in the official course I am studying and they say: "...and hold your breath as you squeeze the button."
Opinions/experience on which is correct/preferred?
Is one way more correct than the other?
Does it really matter if the end result photo is what you were going after?
I would say that whatever works the best for you, then that technique is the one you use. For myself, I think it depends that I'm doing, in nature I tend to exhale and when I'm in the studio I tend to hold my breathe more often than not. Not sure why.
A lot of the text books and information I have read on the web has always expressed the same thing in almost the same exact terms: "take a deep breath, slowly exhale while pressing the shutter button. Holding your breath is the exact opposite of what you want to do."
Then I read something in the official course I am studying and they say: "...and hold your breath as you squeeze the button."
Opinions/experience on which is correct/preferred?
Is one way more correct than the other?
Does it really matter if the end result photo is what you were going after?
it says that in the NYIP course I am on too.
I dont hold my breathe... LOL. I never even think about holding my breath.
I take a deep breath and slowly exhale when necessary. (Low light conditions with slow shutter.) Holding your breath causes you to tremble, and your hands will shake slightly.
Without question, exhaling during shutter release is the smoothest way to do it. Holding your breath is tension-producing, it's the worst way to do it. For corroboration, ask any expert marksman what he's taught to do.
During my time in the Army, I was taught and was teaching (during marksmanship) to take a deep breath, exhale to about half way out and then take aim and shoot. This is the moment of most stability. The same applies to photography, I can imagine.
Don't inhale or exhale.
If you have to or can't help: exhale provides more stability than inhaling.
yeah - Snipers apparently do - assuming I can use CSI Miami as a source for that sort of knowledge. Man, though, what a far-fetched storyline that show continues to follow - (sorry for the tangent).
Originally posted by HeiSch:
During my time in the Army, I was taught and was teaching (during marksmanship) to take a deep breath, exhale to about half way out and then take aim and shoot. This is the moment of most stability. The same applies to photography, I can imagine.
Don't inhale or exhale.
If you have to or can't help: exhale provides more stability than inhaling.
I find that breathing, exhaling, or holding, depends on the situation; when I'm really in tune with my surrounding I shoot when the time is right without thinking about what my breath is doing... but then my body's usually doing what I need it too. sometimes that's jsut breathing normally (rarely), sometimes that's holding my breath (on occasion), and sometimes thats on the exhale (more often than not).
