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The joys of tripods and remote controls

The joys of tripods and remote controls

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The joys of tripods and remote controls

So there're typically two separate applications when you might use a tripod, low light and to take a photograph of your self and it just so happens that we have both of the situations right now. We're in a kind of a shady forest and the craft that we're going to take a picture of today is a t-shirt. So it would not be acceptable for me to just hold out my hand and take a picture of myself. That's fine for snapshots of your friends but when you're taking a good product shot that's not going to cut it. So you need a nice tripod and we've got one here that's great. It's got these adjustable legs which is good. So that we can make it a little higher a little shorter. We can adjust in the center. Make some horizontal changes, actually lets see here. Yep pretty good. We can make it higher or lower, and what I'm focusing on right now, you might have noticed there's a little paper version of myself over here. That's actually a focus target that I have made. You can google and download your…

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