FrauFeli

interesting tag.

1] increase your camera's ISO
2] decrease your camera's EV to take a dark, sharp photo, and then "push" the image later by brightening it in photoshop, gimp or whatever image editing software you have.

1 and 2 increase the noise in the image, so you want to avoid them and instead:

3] brace the camera or your arms against something. hold the camera against a street lamp, rest it on top of a fire hydrant, table, parked car etc.

but the number one cause of camera shake in point and shoots is actually *pressing the shutter button*. there are two ways to avoid this common problem.

4] find your camera's self-timer mode. set the self timer for 2 seconds. now when you press the shutter, the shot will be taken 2 seconds after the camera stops shaking from having pressed the button.
5] find and activate your camera's "burst" mode. this also might be called "continuous" mode and be represented by a series of overlapping squares. once it is activated, press and hold the shutter button and fire off 5 exposures. this will increase your chances of one your shots having no shake. also, the first exposure might have camera shake from pressing the shutter button, and the last exposure might have camera shake from releasing the shutter button, but all the exposures in between where you are merely holding the button down won't have shutter button induced shake.

you can combine these 5 techniques in various ways, depending on the low light situation you are in.