Sandbags and Lowel weights are solid methods to anchor down equipment. Well made and cared for, they can last a lifetime. But there is always a need for a weight to hold down one more light stand or something in a photo set, and having some of these inexpensive barbell weights is a smart way [...]
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Squares of black velvet are scattered all over my studio, and draped on some of the windows to boot. In all the trips I’ve made to the fabric district to look for backgrounds of one sort or another, I don’t think I ever walk away without some black cloth. In sets, over lights, to dampen [...]
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“What is it?” That’s what I probably said to my client that gave me this contraption several years ago. I was photographing some products that needed a table-top treatment but wouldn’t stand up by themselves because of their shape, and the way they were weighted. The client had someone at the company cobble together a [...]
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Time was, when you ran out of a photo supply you could pick from the several professional photography suppliers in the area, and stop in for more (a few 50-packs of 7058 out of the cooler anyone?). But the supplies that never run out, the staples that are used in many photo shoots but last [...]
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This prescription bottle looks a little raggedy because it has been trooped around in one of my accessories cases for years. I use this, and similar large prescription bottles, to store replacement bulbs and flash tubes. The halogen modeling lamps for flash heads, the tubular flash replacement lamp from a portable flash, all fit well. [...]
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