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#12441623, By henro_ben The Photo Gallery

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  henro_ben 13 May 2019 13:19:52 2,393 posts
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  HairyArse wrote: What throws me is other than for long exposure photography, why do photographers use a tripod? If it's a bright day, and your shutter speed is above 1/100, why are you even using a tripod? Various reasons, but the main ones would be long exposure times in low light, long exposure times from using various filters e.g. neutral density filter, or infra red etc., long focal lengths exaggerating movement. You might also be using a specialist lens e.g. tilt shift, that requires a certain amount of adjustment after you've composed. Wildlife photography - often you'll set up based on a perch etc. that you expect a bird to land on, makes sense to leave the camera set up on a tripod and just wait etc. Sometimes it's just that you get into the habit of using a tripod and it's hard to break.