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    Easy DIY hacks

    Feb 02, 2021 5 minutes

    Ian Pack

    Ian is a seasoned photographer based in Sussex. He works across a number of industries and runs a creative studio. To see his work visit www.winephotos.uk or Instagram @packs.hacks.

    Stability hacks

    Shopping bags and drink bottles

    Sandbags and counterweights are used extensively in commercial photography, video studios and on location for stabilising light stands and booms, especially with heavy mono bloc flash heads and larger flash modifiers. However, you can use readily available household objects to stabilise light stands.

    If you have a reusable shopping bag, preferably with long handles, and a couple of 2 litre water or fizzy drinks bottles, you have 4 kilos (8lb 13oz) of instant ballast to attach to the base of your light stand, which is sufficient to stabilise most Speedlite to 200Ws flash

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