Cheap Christmas Gift Ideas for Photographers | by Dee Grant | Pictures By Mom | Learn How To Take Better Pictures | I totally love this little smartphone tripod! Cheap Christmas gift ideas for photographers can be a challenge, but at just $20 – the Joby Grip Tight GorillaPod Stand makes a fabulous inexpensive gift idea for photographers! (If you want to order one for the photographer on your Christmas list right now - click here - we get tons of gear from Adorama, they have the best prices and ship super fast). The Joby Grip Tight GorillaPod Stand is really just a small clamp that can secure an iPhone, Android (even a big Galaxy) or other smartphone to a GorillaPod tripod. I have used a GorillaPod tripod for years. GorillaPod tripods are much smaller and versatile than a standard tripod, and the smaller versions easily fit into a pocket or a purse. As an added bonus, GorillaPods don’t really look like tripods, so you have a chance of sneaking them into historic sights where the tripod police would confiscate a traditional tripod (don’t laugh, I have had run ins with the tripod police at the Taj Mahal, Westminster Abbey, the Smithsonian…to name a few…). Plus, GorillaPod tripods are super handy – they can attach to almost anything, anywhere. But what makes the Joby Grip Tight GorillaPod Stand special is that it attaches to any smartphone! There are lots of reason why you’d want to use your iPhone, Android, Galaxy or other smartphone on a tripod. The best reason is to hold your smartphone camera while you get into your own pictures! You’d just set up your iPhone, Android, Galaxy smartphone camera with a Joby Grip Tight GorillaPod Stand, use a self timer app (such as the Apimac Self Timer App) and now you can jump into your own pictures! Another big reason to use the Joby Grip Tight GorillaPod Stand with your iPhone, Android, Galaxy smartphone is to hold your phone while taking videos. Hand held video is usually jumpy and hard to watch. Using a tripod makes your video nice and steady – plus you can be in your own videos too! If you want to get a bit more fancy, you can also use the Joby Grip Tight GorillaPod Stand to hold your iPhone, Android, or Galaxy smartphone camera when you use specialty apps to create panoramas, long exposure pictures or even time lapse video. Here are a few apps that would work great with the Joby Grip Tight GorillaPod Stand: iPhone Photo and Video Apps to Use With the Joby Grip Tight GorillaPod 360 Panoram is a panoramic picture maker for iPhone. Slow Shutter Cam lets you capture a variety of slow shutter speed effects. Cinemagram allows you to animate small portions of photos to create images that are part-photo and part-video. Android Photo and Video Apps to Use With the Joby Grip Tight GorillaPod Vignette is a full-featured Android camera application, featuring digital zoom, time-lapse, self-timer and more. Multi use Android camera app: Timer, Voice Activated: take a picture by clapping or shouting, Burst Mode, Collage, Time Lapse. A full featured app for capturing amazing time lapse clips with your Android camera. If you were looking for a cheap Christmas gift ideas for photographers – the Joby Grip Tight GorillaPod Stand is only $20 and is super useful.
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