Why do I think of the Martian war machines when I look at that picture?
Why do I think of the Martian war machines when I look at that picture?
We rented large ladders this size for pro architectural etc shoots and mounted a tripod head through one of the holes on top wrung...
Issues include sway in the wind and (dangerous) little space to work camera on top... :0
Used them in the studio with strobe, cut out the vibrations, but still dangerous...
Steve K
It's RUNG!Originally Posted by LabRat
Architectural Photograper Ezra Stoller used some crazy configurations to get the angles needed for his images.
” Never attribute to inspiration that which can be adequately explained by delusion”.
Pretty hard to beat Melvin Vaniman. He used a 16 inch cirkut panoramic camera on top of his poles. Google him, a very interesting person that met an untimely death but not from a tall tripod or pole.
I haven't found a better copy of this image, but you get the idea.
He writes about his LF cameras here:
Though, per his website, now he is using digital medium format.My first large format camera was a Deardorff 8x10, later joined by a Deardorf 11x14 and a Canham 8x10. Then it was a turn of Phillips 8x10, which was very fashionable at one point because it's light, and finally a Gibellini 11x14. https://www.massimovitali.com/large-...as-a-timeline/
This shows Alec Soth using the same tripod that I use.
Everyone knows this:
I pity those folks photographing the Midwest, up on their car and motorhome roofs trying to see over the cornstalks. Here we have cliffs and mountains when we need a high viewpoint.
And some of those "tripod" examples posted on this thread more resemble a forest fire lookout station.
I have a 10' ladder with a tripod head attachment I stuck on. Pain in the bum to lug around, though
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