When you shoot portrait...

[Seymore]

This post does not pertain to dSLR bodies with the 2nd shutter button for portrait shots.

When you shoot portrait and your taking a hand held shot... So do you have the shutter button up or down?

I only ask this because, as an example, I see pathfinder (http://www.dgrin.com/member.php?userid=125)s avatar shows the button up and I've always shot with the button down. This just feels more comfortable and stable to me.

[BridgeCity]

This post does not pertain to dSLR bodies with the 2nd shutter button for portrait shots.

When you shoot portrait and your taking a hand held shot... So do you have the shutter button up or down?

I only ask this because, as an example, I see pathfinder (http://www.dgrin.com/member.php?userid=125)s avatar shows the button up and I've always shot with the button down. This just feels more comfortable and stable to me.
Personally, I shoot with the button up.

[luckyrwe]

I shoot shutter up. If I shoot shuter down I shoot with my thumb.

If I am going to shoot portrait all day I will shoot button up, then to do a landscape I will rotate the camera to the left. It will be upside down and probably really look weird, but it gets the shot!

[Michiel de Brieder]

down is way more stable for me, but my avatar is from 'that time' when I hadn't figured that out yet :D

[T4Tots]

I always shoot button down to keep it steady. That's also the way my tripod swings for portrait. I think I read somewhere that if you are using flash in portrait that you should hold the camera in the position that is "button up"...I have no idea where I read it...wish I did. I know for rotating on smugmug it's one step faster because the right rotate button is already selected, so I figure it's the most common.