Taylor Steele

My parents had bought a video camera for us to film Christmases and other family events. I took it down to the beach, set up a tripod, and I would grab two other friends, and we'd take turns filming and surfing. Then, at the end of the day, I'd go home and I'd make a video for everybody to watch.

American Director

Ann Hood

Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

American Novelist

D. A. Pennebaker

If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

Jonas Mekas

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.

Lithuanian Director

Li Ziqi

At first, when I did everything myself, I'd set up a tripod, film and then press stop. That's why all my shots are on a tripod and don't move, and that's why my videos are still filmed this way.

Chinese Celebrity

Chloe Kim

I freak out when I see a spider. I was doing an interview once, and there was this really big, furry spider crawling up the tripod, and I was like, 'I can't do this!

American Athlete

Steve Irwin

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.

Australian Scientist

Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

British Actor

A tripod provides stability to prevent shaky images, mainly used with cameras and telescopes.

Stability Usage

'Tripod' suggests a technical and precise setup, often linked to photography and astronomy.

Technical Equipment

Most tripods have adjustable legs to level the device on uneven surfaces.

Adjustable Legs

In furniture, a tripod is often considered less stable than four-legged counterparts.

Furniture Stability

As furniture, tripods can be decorative and add a vintage or artistic touch to a room.

Decorative Piece

When relating to archaeology, a tripod connects to history and ancient uses.

Historical Object

Ancient tripods may hold cultural significance, representing religious or social practices.

Cultural Significance

 you have to get up there and and make the main-floor platform with two main support poles and then you're only allowed to use 12 cross pieces for the floor and it all has to be tied together with vines and I said well you know I need to take quite a bit of equipment up there I need a tripod you know gets gear can I have a little bit wider floor and

Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...

 but the problem is with the tripod cuz no-name used to put and get on the solid ground and it all works fine but today obviously I've got on the beach sits on a nice soft sand which means all the legs keep digging it so as I'm trying to pan or get nice smooth shots of the seals the legs are just going deeper and deeper and all the

Sleepy Harbour Seals and...

 used to people being around them the crew has to be quite small you have to be respectful of those animals you always have to remember that even if a scientist is has been following them they may may not accept a film crew so at first the film crews stood back used a lot of traditional camera techniques cameras mounted on tripods

Filming The Yeti PIPE Wild...

 only thing they could really do after they discovered I'd foiled their plan was to go and get a drink at the bar so as I said it's is temperate rainforest this place so it's pretty much impenetrable to go walking especially with you know big cameras and tripods so I was searching for the Wolves in my little 12 zodiac it was

A Quest to Find Canada’s...

 and you're setting it up, putting it on the tripod. I've got the family, spent the better part of a day talking with them. They sort of understand what I'm on about. They think I'm a bit crazy, but that's another story. And what's most important for me is the beauty and the aesthetic,

Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous...

 a motion-blurred picture. The speed is measured in seconds and fractions of seconds. For shooting sports or anything with a lot of movement, we'll need faster speeds. For taking awesome night landscapes, longer exposures will be better, but we'll need a tripod to steady the shot

How to take a great...

 moon even a slightly brighter because the corona of the Sun is brighter than the full moon so you only see a few stars like a deep Twilight so it's possible to do hand lit handheld photography but I recommend you use a tripod for sure one of the things I do

Q&A with Experts About...

 aerials so I contract a helicopter company and I asked who's the best pilot you have because it's very important you take off the door you want the helicopter to be stable and you put half of your butt outside and you use this helicopter as a moving tripod

Mattias Klum: Lions,...

 is how you put it up put okay yeah to begin three wooden poles are lashed together near the top so they can then be raised as a large tripod this structure is now sturdy enough to act as the framework while new poles are added

How to Build a Teepee PIPE...

 technical challenge of low light photography in general you need faster lenses longer exposure a steady tripod but more important is you need to plan you have to get a better understanding of the night