Tripods and monopods to improve your photography

At 6 p.m. on Jan. 9, Hawaii Photo Shooter members Ken Jackson and Susan Miyasaka will talk about tripods and monopods. Tripods can be essential tools for doing night photography, when hand-holding cameras will result in camera shake and blurring. Also, tripods are useful when doing High Dynamic Range images. New cameras can do HDR in camera, but you also can take 1 image under-exposed, 1 image over-exposed, and 1 image in the middle, and then use software to merge the images.

Finally, tripods or monopods are helpful when using telephoto lenses, again to prevent camera shake and blurry images. Jackson will discuss lenses and talk about which ones could be used on which tripods. Miyasaka will demonstrate software Aurora HDR 2019 to merge multiple images. Talk is free and open to the public.

Meetings are held at the Komohana Agriculture Research &Extension Center, Room D-202.

For more information, go to www.hawaiiphotoshooters.com.