Word: tripod
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...offers vacations to places like Zion National Park in Utah, above, with top photographers. Photo Adventures, tel: (44-1665) 830834; www.photoadventures.co.uk, offers a variety of locales under the direction of author and photographer Lee Frost. For many trips you'll need a working knowledge of your camera and a tripod. Just think - when friends and family say they want to see your holiday photos, for once, they'll actually mean...
...jump into traffic to avoid getting run over by a swarm of “I Love Boston”-sweatshirt-wearing, stupidly-grinning visitors from Podunk who take over an entire sidewalk. I’ve had it with the guy setting up a 15-foot-wide tripod in the middle of a gate to photograph the Science Center. And the Barker Center. And Memorial Hall. And Widener. When I’m asked, repeatedly, by a balding, elderly gentleman and his wife whether I’m happy (they had read in a magazine that Harvard students...
...Sony can be had at amazon.com for about $50. At the higher end, try the Rode VideoMic, which yields rich sound for $149 Stand up for your sights It's hard to film a long event while steadying a camera with your hands. For $30, the Sunpak 7001 DX Tripod (bhphotovideo.com) helps simplify and stabilize your shots - and save those tired arms
While the Ferreira children cope with the ordeal of spending a weekend with their father (Ray is divorced), the earth suddenly faces the somewhat more daunting ordeal of death-dealing tripod machines rising from the ground and massacring innocent bystanders. Apparently, the tripods were buried by malevolent aliens centuries earlier, and have now been activated by the evil extraterrestials. Cruise’s character appears to possess no special powers that equip him to survive an alien attack, other than being able to unload shipyard cargo very fast and having the skills of an excellent auto mechanic. (There?...
There aren’t many chances for the acting in the film to impress audiences. The character development is satisfactory but not great: actors spend the vast majority of the movie running, swimming, stumbling, and hiding away from the deadly tripod machines. But the brief development and Cruise’s natural charisma are enough to keep the audience’s sympathy—and attention...