everyone John here today we're going to look at the basics of using a tripod for landscape photography so there's a few different ways that you can set this up different extensions of the legs and all sorts of stuff so we'll cover a bunch of different situations sit back and enjoy the shelf okay so I'm using an aluminum tripod here I'm in front of 190 X Pro beat tripod it's pretty good basic entry-level tripod and it served me well ever since I got it so I highly recommend it I also have a very basic fall head here which allows me to frame the shot in many different ways pretty good cost so it's great if you're just getting started using a tripod you want to make sure that when you're going for height you extend your tripod using the widest legs first year your first extension and then as you need more height you would extend the smaller lens and if you have a four second try plugging would then extend your next set of legs out the reason this is as you're extending your legs you want to have the widest ones kind of support your tripod a lot one thing to keep in mind is that a lot of people will actually to get just a little extra height rather than extending the tripod legs all three of them just a little bit more what they'll do is they'll try and just get just a little bit more height out of the tripod by extending out their center column and this is actually not really the best idea because this column isn't actually as stable as extending all three of your tripod legs out you get a lot more support doing it that way so only extend your center column if it's kind of a last resort and all of your legs are at their full extension already okay so one of the cool things about these tripods is that each leg can be obviously extended independently of each other and they also have the ability to the position relative to each other in different ways so in this particular setup you can see that I have this leg here on the left-hand side of the camera extended to its complete fullness and pulled out a little bit further allowing me to have a shorter leg on the right hand side and then an even shorter one here on the rock in front of it allowing for a very stable and very vertically oriented camera here which allows me to a full control over where I want my camera to be position whether I want to go with that portrait orientation landscape orientation pan around in the general area okay so finally I have the tripod set up in kind of a different position here what I've done is I pulled the center column out not every tripod is going to have this ability but the Manfrotto tripod does a pretty good job at getting down right to the ground by allowing you to pull the tribe to the center column out you can see right now it is actually perpendicular to the ground rather than being vertical and I have the ability to slide it out and kind of go all the way around which is really nice if you want to do very interesting low-angle perspectives so it's something to try and in and test out if you have the ability if not most prime pots can get pretty low so always remember to consider that low perspective okay so now I just want to take a look at a common way that the tripod can be set up incorrectly and we might not think it is so here I have my tripod setup and what big thing that's wrong with this setup is that our center column is actually kind of off kilter a little bit because you can't set up on this fairly steep hill and I'm shooting down in this direction here and having the tripod center column angled in such a way kind of takes the center of gravity of your tripod it shifts it downhill a little bit which can cause your high pot to fall over a little easier or just make it a little more unstable when you're long exposures to quickly fix this if you if you're in a situation where your center columns off building you can just adjust your legs accordingly to get your center column back to a vertical position so I'm going to do that right here simply by shortening up this leg in the back and then shortening this leg in the front here and with just those two very quick movements my center column is now nice and vertical which gives me a nice stable platform to shoot oh this is much better than trying to just adjust your ball head to get a level shot so I hope that this video has really helped you learn how to set up a tripod if you have any questions you can comment below and of course if you've liked the video please subscribe to the channel I'll see you again soon