Har, I just wrote about tripods and their creative effect, maybe I should put it on a blog.
On 1 June 2013 00:55, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 31, 2013, at 09:44 , [email protected] wrote: > >> 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 have one of these stuffed in my bag: > > http://www.amazon.com/Pedco-UltraPod-Lightweight-Camera-Tripod/dp/B000ANCPNM > > It's not as stable as a regular tripod, but it's good enough to get your > camera strapped to something or set on something so you can aim it correctly. > > That way you can be spontaneous and you're not lugging around 20 pounds of > "maybe I'll need this". > > Granted - with the K5 and the 16-50, that's a fair amount of weight on this > tiny thing so I don't find myself strapping that combo to vertical poles much! > > Also: I like this shot you did. Great lighting and exposure. Like I think > Paul mentioned, I might rotate it a bit to square it up but that's about it. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [email protected] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > 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. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
