Low Angle Shots

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More like $335 (to start) for one of those bean bags.

Plus... they want to sell their demo tape to you for $10.00

CineThis!
 
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True that. A low angle shot should be easy to do no matter what. Get a pillow. Jeez. I was screwing around and just layed down on the ground, it worked.
 
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Try one of those little springy tripods they sell at Walmart for digital cameras.
 
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Hey guys, i was diggin through some old posts to get cought up a bit, and came across this and thought i would share a little tripod hack job i did, pretty easy actualy. i bought one of these for less then 80 bucks at samys here in la.

http://www.samys.com/product.php?ItemNo=BOGE3001N&PHPSESSID=790c5d752de63643b93329009563607a

then i just cut off the center pole. obviously you loose the abillity to raise the pole up anymore but whatever. you can still get some decent height out of extending the legs. i have anther tripod anyway for shooting higher up.

heres a pic

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this is pretty low, but u can almost flatten the legs out if u wanted. very versitile setup i must say...
hope this is usefull!
 
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Hi there,
for those low and rough ground shots that you need but the standard tripod wont let you get you need a Benbo.

the weirdest tripod you can imagine and it takes a bit of getting used to but it really allows you to put the camera exactly where you want it.
The tough bit to setting up is that when you loosen the bolt all the legs move in all directions. Its a matter of placing each foot where you want it then moving the column then locking the bolt.
Very like playing the bagpipes i think.


I needed some vertical shots looking down the side of a building.
My benbo allowed me to safely place the camera three feet out from the side of the wall, overhanging the railing easily.
it did need a water bottle to steady the tripod but it was easy to use.

trekker.jpg


with a simple home made bracket attatched i can perform smooth pans with the camera mounted about 2cm from the ground, allbeit with a limited arc of about 170 degrees.
The bracket is a piece of flat aluminium folded into a square that the top attaches to an inverted pan and tilt head and the camera attaches to the bottom.
the pan and tilt head is fixed to the bottom of the column and hey presto. Well you need to adjust the legs so that they are in line with the column and place a small weight or sandbag on the leg at the back.

For other tricky shots i have even placed two legs on the ground and the third up a tree.

The Benbo is designed for rough terrain still photography and so is fitted out with a ball and socket head.
A fluid head can be mounted instead.

Avoid the mini trekker as it is just too small to be useful IMO.

I purchased mine many years ago when they fitted it with a four axis tilt head, so i placed a fluid on top of that when i need to position in a really awkward place, or just attach one or the other depending on my need.

All in all an extremely versatile rather bulky and a bit heavy tripod with legs you can place in the water without them leaking.

check out for some info:
http://www.patersonphotographic.com/tripods/benbo.html
sorry but I cant seem to find the manufaturers homepage.

Made in the UK it is widely exported and so is probably available from a local dealer if they check around a bit.


Steve

Australia
Home of the fluid head.
 
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..yeah, i stick the thing on a blanket, and bunch the blanket up to support it at the right angle and such. ive taken off a shoe, and stuck it on that before.. the other day i used a stroller with a blanket on the sippy cup tray to do a dolly shot..smoooth as glass. ive laid on the ground and set the cam on top of me before.. (and no..it wasnt like that! lol .. i dont love it that much..) tommorow ill be using a little yellow rideable schoolbus of my daughters on top of a picnic table for a dolly cause i didnt have time to build a skate dolly this week(doing it next week), and im going to be in the scene so i cant run the vested stabilizer(man that would make it easy, if my other operator was able to do it well). anyway.. point is if i had the money, id have a cool looking shoe for every foot in the biz. but i dont.. and i dont let it slow me down me in the least.
 
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Yeah, man, just put it on something soft. A blanket, a pillow,even a shoe. If you want to pan it while low... well for 150 bucks I'd rewrite my storyboard.

Unless the shot is worth 150 bucks... Like a low angle view of Denise Richards in a mini skirt. Yeah, I would want to keep the camera moving as needed... ;D
 
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that's what I was thinking...

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BTW, a little off topic, but how do you like the 503 head for pan, tilt? Thinking of picking one up.

Also, IAL makes good points. Creating a system that works on the fly makes for a memorable shoot.

-TuffGong
 
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If all you need is a fixed shot, the DvRigPro. can be used as
a low angle mount. Just drop it on the ground.

Danny.
 
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