Tripods, Help or Hinderence? Discuss...

[rlpruitt]

... for reasons your excellent image supports:

1. Low light (in my case it's during the magic hours - sunrise, sunset)
2. Small apertures - for increased DOF (and sharpness throughout the image)

3. Tack sharp - I bet you can see the patterns in the window curtains on a fully enlarged image.
4. Stacked images

You can't do that with image stabilization.

Although OTOH, if you're taking shots in good light and shallow DOF and blurred backgrounds are fine - or may even be better like in street photography and candid portraiture - stabilization is SUPER!

It's nice to have a choice.

Ralph

 

[GAREB]

I do not think those who said they do not use a tripod are against using tripods, I sure am not. I own and use 4 tripods myself, especially for macro or night photography when I'm photographing the moon, stars and planets and using a large telephoto lens. But often using a tripod just is not possible and a lot of times more of a trouble than being an asset. Especially when you are stopped at each location and asked to show your pro photographer's permit, if you have to buy a $250 pro permit for each location, that can come very exspensive, you learn to work around without using a tripod. I have a cactus wireless remote that I often use when I use my gorrilapod or tablepod or setting the camera on my camera bag. I often use a tipod when shooting landscapes when the pedestrian traffic is non existant, but on a street in a city with a population of over 18 million people, its just not always possible to use a tripod especially when there are always a crowd of people on the street. You learn to work around using a tripod and by using other forms of support. I think most here just feel that using a tripod just is not needed for their photography, and their photography is not any less professional than those who do use tripod, I do not think my photography is any less profession an dso do those who have bought my photos or came to my showings. But to each their own.
JD

 

[FrankieJ]

you'll get no argument from me, I can't always set down a tripod either. Fortunately most of my work is shot in the wee hours of the morning (I have a day job) and I'm lucky in that I get shots that few other photographers are permitted to get during populated daylight hours. It sounds like you are lucky enough to travel and photgraph often, do you have a web page?

Thank you
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[FrankieJ]

Hi fellow TP user,

thanks for the kind props on my pic. As casually as I like to act regarding photography, I am actually a maniac when I get a camera in my hands. I am the nut out on the street or out in a the field with full size a tripod trying to become the next Ansel Adams. Well it beats having Ashton Kutcher as your camera wielding role model! I can't imagine trying to shoot a nieces birthday or a trip to a themepark without good old Mega OIS. But whenever possible... hey it's got a shoulder strap on it, it's not that much of a hassle.



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