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Beginning In Photography: Tripod: Friend Or Foe?

They're heavy, expensive, conspicuous, takewant to take portraits, but if you are
time to set up and take apart again. Inshooting a low light landscape and pointing
short, tripods are a nuisance. And in thisyour camera out into the vast beyond, there
age of digital cameras, we can alwaysis little or nothing for the flash to bounce
increase the ISO sensitivity to accommodate aoff and the light it produces will be lost.
low light situation. So why bother with oneSo sometimes there is no other choice but to
at all? Let's look at some of the advantagessit your camera on a tripod, reduce the ISO
of  using  a  tripod.and slow down your shutter speed to take in
all  the  available  light.
Noise  reduction
Creativity
Fist of all, what is noise? Increasing the
ISO level in a digital camera amplifies theLike just about any other camera accessory,
signal through the digital sensor thattripods can be creative as well as
records the image. This is much the same asutilitarian. Think cityscapes at night with
turning the volume on your home stereo up totraffic trails running through the scene.
10. You will hear a hissing in theThink clouds moving through a twilight sky.
background. This is amplification noise. ItTo capture this movement and keep the static
looks like grain in a low quality film wouldobjects in an image sharp requires a long
and decreases the quality of the image in theshutter speed. So the camera needs to be kept
same  way.deadly still for 20 or 30 seconds or even
longer. It is just not physically possible
The technology used to make digital camerasfor a human to do this, so the only thing for
advances almost daily. One day, hopefullyit is to drag out the tripod, perch your
soon, digital cameras will be created thatcamera on top and use either a self timer or
can record the same quality image no mattercable  release  to  take  the  shot.
what ISO setting is used. But until then, we
just have to except the fact that if you wantDepending on what you want to do with your
a better quality image, you need to use aimages, you will either regard your tripod as
lower ISO. If you want to shoot in low lightyour best friend or biggest annoyance. If
or at night, there are a couple of options.your photos are destined for web use or maybe
Firstly, you could use a flash. Using flashsmall prints for a photo album, you might not
can produce some very natural or verybe as concerned with the technical quality of
creative results, depending on how you usethe end result, but if you want to enlarge
it. But there are a couple of drawbacks.prints to hang on a wall, or are looking to
Firstly, you have to buy a flash unit. Insell your images, you will soon discover that
most cases the little pop up flash on youra tripod is a valuable tool capable of being
camera is simply not powerful enough to dothe difference between getting that million
anything more than fill in some dark areas indollar shot or missing a golden opportunity.
an already well lit scene. Flash won't workI carry mine just about everywhere.
for all subjects either. It is fine if you



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