Count the frame. Four sets of legs planted in the dirt, and most of the people standing behind them are holding their cameras in their hands anyway. Nobody is doing anything wrong. That is just what a workshop looks like in the ninety percent of the day that isn’t the shot. The tripod is the most bought and least used piece of equipment in the hobby. It gets carried because the packing list said so, and because there is a lingering sense that serious photography happens on sticks.