Excellent point about composition (and not having it dictated by where one can rest one's hands), Barbara. (But by the same token, if the perspective you need is not possible with a tripod, hand-held it will have to be.) Unless one is skilled with gun or bow (both of which require being trained on the target before, during and after the shot), routinely using a tripod is a good idea, if feasible. Also, sometimes you need the extra light of the flash, and its reflection is not a problem. However, if flash reflection IS an issue, a tripod also allows slower shutter speeds so you can use available light and avoid the flash. If you are shooting something that is stationary (which is most of the shots we post to each other), this usually works well. Taking Don's (?) technique of "shooting ten, keeping one (good one)" one step further, I often take several shots of the same subject both with and without flash. Hey, thanks to the miracle of digital photography, it doesn't cost any more, so why not? Alan E. -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Richmond <piano57 at comcast.net> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 7:34 am Subject: Re: [CAUT] Digital cameras was RE: Slipping Beckets pictures The image stabilizer feature might make a tripod unnecessary for some people...but not all (as I meekly raise my hand). Besides helping me get an in-focus picture, I like using a tripod because it allows me to carefully set up the picture's composition. Sometimes I need my hands for/in a picture, so I use the camera on a tripod and set the timer. There are some smaller tripods (about 12") with amazingly expandable legs which aren't too big for lugging around, and then there are these very small, versatile tripods which are very convenient for the uneven terrain of a piano: http://joby.com/gorillapod/original/features Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, Illinois ----- Original Message ----- From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <del at fandrichpiano.com> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Monday, February 8, 2010 8:55:07 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [CAUT] Digital cameras was RE: Slipping Beckets pictures snip . The image stabilizer makes a tripod unnecessary. One less thing to carry. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100209/ee039e67/attachment.htm>
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