A portable Rostrum Camera Stand (RCS) for overhead photos and video with smartphones, tablets and cameras. The versatile RCS allows stills photographers and videographers, regardless of skills levels, to capture high quality overhead stills images and video harnessing the many features available on modern image capture devices. There are so many, often under utilised, useful features these camera devices now have such as WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC remote control, time-lapse video, slow-motion video, high speed video, stop frame animation, built-in flash, optical zoom, ultra close macro and a host of other still image quality controls. The RCS is a fantastic tool to help fully harness those very useful camera features.