For landscape photography, a sturdy, versatile tripod is arguably the best investment you can make for sharper images—and sharpness is critical for successful photographs. Unintentional softness and blur will render photos of even the most stunning scenes unusable. That’s true for every photographic subject, but especially for richly detailed landscape compositions. Though modern image stabilization systems in cameras and lenses can help, even the most sophisticated systems have limitations, especially in low-light shooting conditions such as sunrise and sunset which landscape photographers usually prefer. In addition to ensuring maximum stability to optimize sharpness, shooting from a tripod can also help in the process of precisely refining your framing of the scene, and tripods are essential for techniques like focus stacking and...