Today photo is taken from the top of the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) in Dresden. As in each city, I like to search for the highest spot, to get a nice overview of the area and also to try to get few nice shots. No tripods were allowed up there, and with the number of people it would be hard to use it anyway. But recently I got the Green Pod (you can get more info on it here http://thepod.ca/) and it worked really nicely there as a tripod substitute. The Green Pod is actually a bean bag, which you attach to the camera and it provides a flexible platform, so the camera stands still when placed on an even surface. This was the first time I used it, and probably not last time. Only thing I don’t like is, that the screw is fixed in the bag, so I can’t rotate it freely. But other than that, it’s a great help for places where you can’t use a tripod.

This is a manual blend from 5 shots.


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• Technique: Manual blending
• Number of exposures: 5
• Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
• Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8
• Focal length: 16 mm
• Aperture: 11
• Middle exposure time: 1/40s
• ISO: 100
• Tripod used: yes

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Where was this photo taken:

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