Night Photography

I went down to Alki recently, primarily with the intent of taking some pictures of KNND's setup for my radio blog but I also wanted to take some night shots.

Unfortunately, what I didn't realize was that my tripod had lost a piece. It's got a quick release mount for the camera and the piece that attaches to the camera sits in the head of the tripod originally on a kind of rubberized mat.

Well, that mat was glued in apparently not well and fell out and went unnoticed except that when I went to use the tripod the camera wouldn't stay still on the head. I have since repaired it by using a piece of the fabric portion of stick on Velcro which provides the necessary tension to hold the little camera mount plate stable.

But some of my pictures that day got some camera shake in them as a result because I hadn't figure out what was wrong with the tripod yet.