Long time since anyone posted here, so here's my contribution.
I have a high tripod (Gitzo systematic extra long), and I while it's a bit of a pain to pack (it's quite long folded) I don't regret it as I get to use it quite often. Mostly on sloping ground, but here I needed it to get a high enough viewpoint to not get any sky into the background. I also wanted the horizontal branch of the leftmost tree not be too close to the top of the frame.
With the view camera one still needs to be able to look at the ground glass though, so I had to stand on top of a small rock and balance on my toes. I couldn't really get my eye to the loupe fully so focusing became a bit of guesswork. Thanks to the Aptus with 100% focus check I could see that I managed to put it right.
Another challange was that I wanted the four trees to have suitable spacing between them, which forced me to put two of the tripod feet into the streaming creek. With one tripod leg fully extended into a forcefully streaming creek I got quite some vibration up that leg. It got quite well damped though and at the f/16 shot any leftover vibration was not worse than the diffraction.
Looking at the behind-the-scenes shot it seems like I could have put the tripod a bit further down at a safer position where I was standing when shooting behind the scenes, but then I would get some branches in from the left and at the time shooting I had not yet decided if I wanted to cut to square or not. Normally I have the format in my mind at shooting time, but the difficult shooting position did not allow me to think as much about that.
The conditions was also quite windy so there was some waiting and many shots taken to try to get one with not too much movement in it.
I did check that the rock laid still and the tripod legs had secure footing by putting force on them, so it's not as unsafe as it may look. However I do think that if you don't dare to take any risk with your camera gear, you have either too expensive gear or too poor insurance
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Linhof Techno, Leaf Aptus 75, SK90, f/16, 1/2 sec