Glad to know it's not just me. :-) For night shots, portraits, and macros, yeah, you definitely/usually need a tripod. But it's like, hey, cutting down on my inspiration. Or the inspiration I get by moving around. I suppose, technically, one could do set up shots first, move around all you want to try out angles, then pick a place and use a tripod there. But that wastes a lot of effort too, if those move around shots are naturally going to be blurry without a tripod.
I don't know. Still thinking about it. Marnie aka Doe In a message dated 5/31/2013 7:39:06 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I feel exactly the same way. I can count the number of times I've used a tripod on one hand, as I generally find them to be more an encumbrance than a tool. That said, I finally broke down and got a decent one the other day when I bought my flash unit, as I'm going to be doing a family portrait session soon, and figured it would be a good idea to have one. Still, like you, I like to move around a lot when I'm shooting and a tripod starts to feel like a ball and chain pretty quickly. -- Walt On 5/31/2013 9:14 AM, [email protected] wrote: > But I must say using a tripod, heavily, felt very uncreative. I like to > move around a lot with a camera and try different framing on a scene quickly. > But a tripod is like set up your shot first and let the camera do the > work. Almost boring. I am still sorting out how I feel about that. > > Marnie aka Doe:-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
