hand hold with slower speeds

[varjag]

You mean like some avatars?? 🙄 😀

If you like. Mine is not sharp though 🙂

 

[BrianShaw]

If you like. Mine is not sharp though 🙂

I like yours Eugene... more sharpness would ruin it!

 

[eddie con]

another birthday picture

another birthday picture

using cron 35/2 at 1/15s, f2 or 2.8. fuji superia 400. shooting raucous boys in low light was challenging but i had a subject focus that was fixed and helped to steady the boys as well - the small birthday cake.

 

[Trius]

So, the conclusion is ... sharpness is often (usually?) good but is not everything, and most everyone here is a decent person, and handholding at a relatively slow shutter speed and getting a decent photo is fun. Cool!

 

[DougK]

Seems like a good summary to me, Earl.

 

[George Bonanno]

Very rewarding shots can be gotten handheld at long exposures. I could not imagine having to setup a tripod or altered the light in order to take a truly instantaneous snapshot. This pic was made at 1 second wide open. I had no other choice. Fortunately, I interpreted (guessed) the light appropriately.

Scanned from a print. Leica IIIf with borrowed 28mm Hektor lens using VIOOH finder with attached TUVOO.

 

[payasam]

Neither "sharp" nor "decent" has an absolute meaning. If, say, two or six photographers agree that a picture is all right, then there is a reasonable chance that it is indeed all right.