The tripod is always useful for people
interested in landscapes, including travel images.
The following reasons are suggested by
Ephotozine page.
1. Capture with longer lenses
The
tripod is very important to landscapes
If you have intention of capturing photos
with wide-zoom lens, to prevent your camera from shaking, a tripod is needed.
However, if you still want to the job by hand, make sure you use a shutter
speed that is fast enough. Commonly, against shaking when doing tele-shots, the
common speed should equal 1: focal length. For example, capturing photos in
200mm focal length, the minimal shutter speed must be about 1: 200 second.
2. Capture blurry water
If you try to capture the movement of waterfalls,
rivers or simply lakes’ ripples, you’ll have to slower your shutter speed. However,
working hand-held with the slow speed will blur all details you want to focus
due to the shaking. To fix this problem, you need a tripod then you can slower
the shutter speed as much as you want.
It’s noted that when using tripod, you are
recommended to use a remote control or the camera’s self-timer to capture
images and avoid touching your camera to make it moves just a little.
3. Panorama capture
If you want to shoot landscape panoramas, a
tripod will help to fix you frames and makes it easier to join every single
shot (later or directly on the camera). Start from the left or right side, at
will, and then shot consecutive images. This requires the later frame to overlap
a little part of the previous one. It’s essential not to either focus or adjust
white-balance during shooting. You should manually do all of the configurations
before the capturing process.
To receive panorama that is real and
standard, you need to invest a lot into a panorama specialized camera.
4. Capture under windy weather
Capture
under windy weather
When the wind starts to blow, you have to
think of a steady tripod to maintain your camera’s position as well as prevent
it from shaking if you want a well resulted image. Moreover, you can hang your
bag or stuff to the central hook to increase the stand’s weight and ensure the
balance. If it blows hard, use your body as a fulcrum. In some case, sticking
spikes are also equipped to the tripod to ensure the steadiness.
5. Capture in low lighting
Any shot done at dawn, dusk or night (with a
sky full of stars) requires a certainly slow shutter speed. This means a tripod
is necessary unless you want to have a blurry picture. No matter how you
increase your ISO to raise the capture speed, there are not many camera
producing good images with high ISO at all. Thus, a tripod is a best choice.
6. Capture the height
If you want to shot the sky with the
sunset’s bursting colors shades, adjust your tripod height so that more sky’s
parts lie in the frame. Though you can do this hand-held, this results in an
uncomfortable gesture and a high rate of blurry photo. So the safest selection
consists of a tripod and some adjustments.
7. Capture multiple exposures
In case you desire shots with different
exposure levels that the camera cannot handle, you can capture a series of
separate shot with different exposure levels, and then combine them all in the
later process to receive fascinating HDR pictures.
For this type of image, tripod is a useful
device because just a little change can alter all details of the scene and the
serial shots, sequentially, won’t match each other. As a result, after
adjustments are made, make sure that everything is fixed in its place steadily
before pressing the capture button.
8. Capture in the water
Capture
in the water
Sometimes you have to dip your feet into
the torrent; a sturdy tripod will help you to keep your camera firmly or at
least prevent you from the fear of dropping the camera in to the water. Let
your tripod stand in the water and yourself, on land, keep the camera.
9. Slow down for more thoughts
Sometimes, steps like installing the camera
into the tripod and adjusting the frame are considered time-consuming. However,
those are the times that you are slowing down for considering more deep
thoughts and carefulness before any shots. In this time, you may discover other
either situations or scenes that are normally neglected if you just get your
camera on, shoot quickly then move to another places.
10. Capture
low-angle image
Some
tripods are for shooting low-angle images
To make a difference, you may lower your
tripod’s height and focus onto the ground, emphasize more on some foreground’s
details that are easily forgotten once we often shoot at high angles.
