Using Tripod for Product Photography

Video Transcript

"Talk about product photography. One of the first things I want to talk about is the fact that if you want a good sharp photograph of any kind of product you've got to stabilize the camera. Nobody can hand hold a camera more stable than a tripod can do it. Most cameras, especially a lot of these contemporary point and shoot camera are going to operate at about a thirtieth of a second unless you can override it. In a thirtieth of a second the camera shake is not bothersome enough for snapshots of friends at a party, but if you're trying to get a good sharp picture of a photograph or a photograph of anything for product use or for use of getting, getting images on the web, the use of a tripod is critical. So the first thing we'll do is we'll mount the camera to our tripod so that we have some solid stability and, depending upon what the use of your photograph is, if it's going to be for print/magazine work you're probably going to be working in a vertical format like this, but if you're going to be working for the web you're probably going to have to shoot in a horizontal format so we'll go ahead and set that because we are shooting this particular session for web photograph use. In fact that's why I'm using this little camera. I don't need to go to the big cameras today because the resolution isn't going to be seen on the web anyway. So this is more than adequate. This is actually a pretty good little camera."