Coastal Photography with the Manfroto Tripod



Hachinohe Coast: a Pine tree shaped by the ocean breezes.

Now that I am getting "serious" about photography, my husband surprised me with a Manfroto tripod! How lucky am I? And what a difference a sturdy tripod makes in the quality of your pictures.

I often shoot landscape photographs at or around sunset. These conditions sometime require a longer exposure. This is when the quality of your tripod can play a vital role in the outcome of your photograph. For instance, I was noticing that most of my photographs appeared to have a lot of "noise" in them. I checked and confirmed that my noise reduction option was set on my camera and made sure to correctly expose my photograph. No matter what I did as a precaution, my photos had a fuzzy or noisy look.

Hachinohe Moonrise - shot without the Manfroto tripod

 Luckily, I discovered the problem - my tripod was shifting slightly. I could literally see my subject drift slightly in the viewfinder after I released the shutter. Could the my tripod be the culprit?

Hachinohe Coast - Shot with the Manfroto Tripod

The lighting conditions are different in these photos, but the rocks are very indicative of the sharpness I was able to capture using the two different tripods using an aperature of f20.

 I am very satisfied with the Manfroto - I believe that the stability of the tripod improved my ability to capture low light landscape shots dramatically. I can see a marked improvement in the clarify of my photos and am very happy with my Manfroto tripod!