Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's what everybody thinks Tina but I've had experience in just the opposite direction. My camera on the tripod people totally ignore me. Its like I'm a surveyor or engineer or something. The very nature of hand held photography lies in unobtrusiveness and I have found you walk in the room with a camera and all eyes are on you. But if you are standing in the middle of it with a camera on a tripod they could care less. Its like you're just doing a job and not trying to put anything over on anybody. NOT being at all sneaky. I've been saying this for years as I've experienced it time and time again. A tripod makes you invisible. You are a person at work not a person sneaking around trying to fool people. People walk right up to you as if you are in a glass booth and look right in the camera. You go lick they shrug their shoulders and walk away. You've not stolen their soul. A camera under an honest tripod planted firmly on the ground a makes you invisible in plain sight. Hand held photography makes you kid yourself into thinking you're not the center of attention with all eyes really are on you. That's how I've expensed it. -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:01:03 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Why we all should buy an Alpa :-) > > It's hard to be invisible and use a tripod. And a tripod does no good if > the people in your photo are moving and you're trying to get unposed > photos. Tripods aren't good for all kinds of photography, I do use a > monopod sometimes - both for the camera and as a hiking stick! > > Tina > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Doug Herr > <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>wrote: > >> Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> I think tripods in a sense free us up more than they do the opposite as >> most >>> people think. Tripod use is the secret weapon for really great >>> photography >>> is my view. >> >> Try moving a tripod 6 inches to the left in dense brush w/o spooking the >> subject. The vast majority of my photos were made using a monopod >> combined >> with a shoulder stock for support. A rotating tripod collar on the lens >> is >> critical to using this support effectively IMHO. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information