Best Tripods Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some cameras are heavier and need to be on tripods. Others are small enough to hide in your pocket. There are places where you don't want to feel like you are disturbing anything, so I may use a camera like that.”

Want Needs Feels May Enough Use Like You Cameras Pockets Disturbing Tripods

Author:Jonas Mekas

“For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.”

Ifs Needs Made Self Play Politics Economy Poet Masters Tools Tasks Moved Slave Servant Liberalism Statues Assembly Craftsman Bidding Tripods

Author:Aristotle

“It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However, I wanted to incorporate into the project as a whole the jostling of time-frames I would feel as I set up my tripod on various rocky promontories.”

Way Feels Has Beens Whole Wanted Projects Structure Photographer Photograph Various Indicators Tripods

Author:John Pfahl

“In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.”

Enough Turns Culture Trade Structure Unstable Complication Tripods

Author:Frank Herbert

“When I got the camera on the shoulder, they give me a nickname. They call me 'the tripod' because I'm kind of short and kind of strong. So if I take the camera and I lock myself, you think that you're on a crane.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Kind Strong Give Me Cameras Shoulders Call Me Locks Nicknames Cranes Tripods

Author:Luc Besson

“I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently, and make different kinds of pictures, if you have to set up a view camera on a tripod than if you're Lee Friedlander with handheld 35 mm rangefinder. But fundamentally, vision is not about which camera or how many megapixels you have, it's about what you find important. It's all about ideas.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Important Ideas Different Real Character Use Views Vision Influence Photography Cameras Visible Different Kinds Equipment Going To Work Tripods

Author:Keith Carter

“I once recommended [in a San Francisco Chronicle column] that a third arm - a plastic arm - be sewn at the base of the spine so that people could have a tripod to sit on while waiting in line, and it was taken seriously.”

People Waiting Lines Taken Arms Thirds Plastic San Francisco Columns Spine Chronicles Waiting In Line Tripods

Author:Alan Abel

“I'm too impatient to use a tripod.”

Use Impatient Tripods

Author:Ralph Gibson

“Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.”

World Feels Believe Heart Hands Water Forget Watches Bird Wings Breathe Atmosphere Sunset Bent Cradle Slopes Hands Of God Giraffe Blisters Lioness Iridescent Tripods

Author:Jodi Picoult

“We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.”

Has Beens Film Shots Sitting Shooting Wildlife Tripods

Author:Steve Irwin

“To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my tripod, so I worry that the landscape may disappear the next second and I don't stop keeping an eye on it while I get prepared. Then, when pressing the shutter, I hold my breath. These moments are the greatest joys in my life, as if I were undressing the most beautiful woman in the world - that is, if she will allow herself be undressed. If the photo is a success, it means that she was willing. If not, it has been a lovely dream.”

“I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in the crowd, of which I am myself part.... I try to preserve the dynamics of the street, and my way of using the camera tries to approximate as much as possible the way we see: focusing on details, opening up to wider angles, and composing all these very short, fragmented impressions into a larger mental picture.”

Way Trying Use Moving Streets Cameras Details Crowds Impression Opening My Way Preserves Angle Flexible Composing Dynamics Opening Up Fragmented Tripods

Author:Beat Streuli

“We used hand-held cameras 50 years ago. It wasn't something new. Sometimes we used a tripod, or we'd have a tracking shot, and sometimes - like when a character was being chased - we used a hand-held camera because it was right for the scene. In those cases, it helped the mood; it created immediacy and a feeling for the viewer that they were in the scene and in the moment.”

Years Sometimes Moments Character Feelings Hands Used Cases Scene Shots Years Ago Cameras Mood Something New Viewers Immediacy Tracking Tripods

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.”

Ifs Enough Suffering Causes Views Feet Expression Photography Enlightenment Photographer Photograph Legs Stuck Artistic Hills Pounds Drag Listeners Equipment Whining Artistic Expression Tripods

Author:Bill Jay

“One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it.”

Two Sides Situation Known Building Six Legs Speed Flight Wheels Shops Leap Vehicle Rolling Can Not Backwards Axes Suspension Tripods

Author:Jamie Hyneman

“There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88 when I first came out of detox, I spent every day doing self-portraits to fit back into my own skin. I didn't know what the world looked like - what I looked like - so in order to fit back into myself, I took self-portraits everyday to give myself courage and to fit the pieces back together. I used a tripod then.”

Knows World Way Giving Firsts Self Use Together Used Order My Own Pieces Fit Skins Cameras Everyday Portraits Only Time Back Together Angling Self Portrait Tripods

Author:Nan Goldin

“My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.”

Fronts Cameras Sticks Preference Tripods

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

Lasts Night Fall Darkness Blood Gay Red Died Clock Flames Halls Thieves Decay Dominion Posture Expired Tripods

Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

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Book:The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

Lasts Darkness Gay Red Clock Flames Decay Dominion Expired Tripods Masque

Book:The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.”

Said Lost Felt Masters Mountain Fruit Studios Smell Oil Familiar Hills Valleys Monkeys Lamps Moonlight Sour Spray Waterfalls Rotting Misty Tripods

Author:Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

“But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.”

Heart Next Fields Ready My Heart Arrows Tripods

Book:Nine Horses

Source: Nine Horses

“It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.”

Seems Action Science Death Difficult Millions Modern Revelations Destructive Fragile Rejoice Organisms Units Infatuation Temperament Distinguished Tripods Delphi

Author:William E. Gladstone

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