How to shoot pictures of a deer.

[Funkbomb]

If you didn't know, deer are fidgety creatures. Always moving about. I finally found a couple under some trees eating but it was dark in the shade.

That means, I had to move my aperature down and my shutter speed down. The pics came out pretty blurry.

The flash wasn't an option. What would you do in this situation?

I tried raising the ISO but that didn't help much.

[Tsanford]

What camera do you have?

[wutske]

http://www.dcresource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22579 :D . Or I'd push my camera against a tree to prevent camera shake.

P&S are limited in dark situations. Eventualy I'd try to take a few shots at different ISO's with biggest aperture and for some serious PP I'd shoot one with a fast shutter, biggest aperture and lowest ISO setting (will be way to dark, that's what the PP is for)

[Funkbomb]

I'm using the S2 IS.

This wasn't camera shake. I had my arms locked up against the doors. This is because the deer were moving around fast. Like whipping their heads up and down etc.

I was afraid to shoot them too dark because I don't know how dark it can be before I lose all the detail in the photos.

I shot some at 1 under proper exposure but they were still blurred a bit.

[toriaj]

I'm a real newbie, but I've shot at -3 exposure and had very nice shots.

[BonjiB]

The only thing to really prevent blur is to get that shutter speed up some. Set to aperature priority. If you bump your iso to the highest level, open your aperature up all the way then set your exposure compensation down to say -2 or even -3 if you have to then take that shot you'll prolly be able to freeze the movement. That'll give you just about the fastest shutter speed possible without underexposing the image beyond usability. However, the resulting image will be noisy and have to brightened up in post to print well, which will only accentuate the noise even further but hey; you'll have the picture when otherwise you wouldn't. That's really all i can suggest. Whether advanced point and shoot or dslr the process is the same: faster shutter speed = less blur. Good luck!