Evening canoeists taking to the water

[Rufus]

I went out recently to try out a new lighter weight travel tripod with a ball head. Until now I have only had a very old and heavy two section aluminium tripod with a pan and tilt head.

This post is also a test of linking to images in Adobe Portfolio.

These images are from a series of shots taken as people enjoyed some warm summer weather here in the UK.

Ready to board:


On board (almost):


Time to get paddling:


C&C welcome.

[Shadowman]

How did it handle, sometimes you need reasonably fast horizontal movement to really evaluate?

[Wavelength]

Very nice set of images....

[Rufus]

How did it handle, sometimes you need reasonably fast horizontal movement to really evaluate?

That is an interesting comment, John. When would you use a tripod for fast horizontal movement?

This was the first outing for the new tripod. I was trying the basics first like getting used to how much twist rotation is required to lock/unlock the legs and how tight or otherwise the head needs to be to just hold the camera while beibg able to unlock and move it to readily recompose before locking it down for the shot. Really basic stuff, but helpful.

I did not try the horizontal aspect other than repositioning the ball. There is a column lock which would normally be used to lock the column at a given height. I hope it won't be used much for that purpose (less stability)and will mostly be used with the column right down. In that position I imagine horizontal movement could be acheived by rotating the unlocked column, albeit thereby sacrificing the additional stability of a locked column.

[Shadowman]

That is an interesting comment, John. When would you use a tripod for fast horizontal movement?

This was the first outing for the new tripod. I was trying the basics first like getting used to how much twist rotation is required to lock/unlock the legs and how tight or otherwise the head needs to be to just hold the camera while beibg able to unlock and move it to readily recompose before locking it down for the shot. Really basic stuff, but helpful.

I did not try the horizontal aspect other than repositioning the ball. There is a column lock which would normally be used to lock the column at a given height. I hope it won't be used much for that purpose (less stability)and will mostly be used with the column right down. In that position I imagine horizontal movement could be acheived by rotating the unlocked column, albeit thereby sacrificing the additional stability of a locked column.

Hi David,

Any type of race on a horizontal track, horse racing, sprint.

[Rufus]

Hi David,

Any type of race on a horizontal track, horse racing, sprint.

Fortunately, perhaps, I tend not to shoot faster moving subjects like these. If I did so, I would not think to take a tripod along on the basis that the action would require a high shutter speed and panning with an LCD screen would be difficult. However, I might think to take a monopod and combine that with using the optical viewfinder.

I doubt I shall be trying action shots and focus tracking until I have more experience with fairly static subjects, but it could be a topic to explore in a future Project 52.