How to Use the Camera Tripod: Basic Photography Tips

"Well ladies and gentlemen, I'm Joey Gunz and you can check me out on line at www.joeygunz.com. I'm here on Expert Village today to talk to you about the tripod and the uses and applications of the tripod. Well in the spirit of photography,we've got a pretty sturdy professional gray tripod here. The tripod has pretty much one application in photography and it is to hold your camera and hold it as still as possible. Tripods today come in a variety of sorts. They come with varying heads that attached to your camera that will allow you to move your camera while it is mounted. But all tripods pretty much have telescoping legs. Some of them kind of lock into place differently and if you will see I am kind of just going through the motions here of extending legs on this tripod so that we can set up for a shot. Now one thing that you will always find that most professionals will do is to not extend the neck on this tripod. If a professional needs to get higher for a shot, they will find some way of getting this tripod in position to elevate to where they need it. Because what happens is when you choose to elevate the neck on this tripod like most amateurs will do, it is not as sturdy. You tend to get a little camera shake in there associated with it. So whenever possible, you always want to keep the neck down in that tripod and lock it into shape. What are some uses and applications for a tripod? Low light situations. If you have a situation where there is low light and you have to open up and use really kind of a long shutter speed to get more light onto your film, onto your censor, you definitely what to make sure you shoot with a tripod. Normally if you are shooting with a telephoto lens you never want to shoot anything below 60th of second without a tripod. What are the negative things about shooting with a tripod. You kind of loose that flexibility of rapidly flaming different angles. So if I shoot with this tripod and I am pretty much going to be stuck shotting from this position, I can vary with this handle here to go from portrait to landscape or to give me some varying angles at a point in directions. You kind of loose that free flowing affect that you get when you are shooting without a tripod. Remember every professional photographer has got one and every advanced amateur has a very good tripod. It seems a quality tripod is going to run you a couple of hundred bucks. It is worth the investment. So go out and put one in your arsenal. Put it in your stable. I'm Joey Gunz. Check me out on www:joeygunz.com."