On 2/5/2012 00:06, David Parsons wrote:
I haven't found a tripod to help my composition all that much, but it
does make my pictures sharper because I'm not holding the camera.
Chach-ing!
about 30 years ago I got into Animals Animals / Earth scenes stock
agency based largely on my black and white prints. They took a few
slides, but not many. My "instructions" were to get a better loupe and a
tripod. No matter how good a mood or an expression on beasties, if it
were not "razor sharp" and preferably no higher an ASA (this was 1980
remember?) than 64 - ideally, Kodachrome 25 - for those of us shoointg
35mm.
In BW I shot Tri-x and I could shoot fast enough to keep things sharp.
So I got a Benbo. But I had mate back then and we had bucks and drove
all over the place so I could stash the T-pod in the car and luxuiate in
setting up out in the wild at a nature preserve or park and 'wait for
it" I also had someone to carry it for me. When we did serious trail
walks I carried a lightweight one for low to the ground stuff.
I did my street stuff for me and the nature stuff that I managed to
get sharp enough I sent to the agency, but it was just too much work
for me when I was actually working full time to do all the housekeeping
involved - researching details on scientific names , getting the places
spot on. So I sent them, to say the least, not enough to make a living
on it. I did get some sales back then, but the most recent was probably
- um - 4 or 5 years ago. Can't blame them... I hardly
have given them anything in the past 15 years.
But I'm very very glad I got that tripod. I use it now for
shooting stuff I'm putting on ebay and a very occasional bit
of roof-top great light things.
It certainly cost me shots , too. But I treasure days spent
out in the west where I could frame my shot and wait for the
sun to rise or set, the birds to return to the nest, the
critters to appear while I sipped a cuppa and didn't have
to keep looking through the lens and getting cramped up
in the arm holding the camera.
I always went with two cameras.. the one loaded with T-X
and a 50mm or a 28 that stayed around my neck often or with
a different speed film so that I could cover the unexpected
for my own pleasure or for stuff that didn't need to be
"razor sharp"
I can't get sharp shots shooting on the fly at anything
less than a shutter speed of 250 - my body won't let me.
and frankly, I never could
ann
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote:
I wonder how much of the photographic benefit of using a tripod is from the
camera being steadier, and how much of it is because using a tripod forces you
to slow down and think a bit longer about the photograph.
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