You’re Going to Need a Sturdy Tripod

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You’re going to be shooting in low-light conditions a lot, and your shutter is often going to be open for seconds at a time, so you’re going to need a sturdy tripod to keep your camera absolutely still the entire time that shutter is open—it can’t move even a tiny bit. Now, the key word here is “sturdy.” If you’re shooting travel, or architecture, or people, or pretty much anything other than landscapes, you can get away with one of those light, compact, travel tripods, no problem. But, with landscape photography, you’ll sometimes wind up shooting in windy, rainy, or just unpredictable weather conditions (some ...

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