New Gear

Here is my latest piece of equipment. It's a lightstand with built-in boom. It reaches up to 9 feet at the joint between the stand and the boom, and the boom has clips that hold a reflector. The reflector in the picture is 52" across.

This allows me to reflect light from my on-camera flash up at the big-old reflector, giving me nice soft light on my subjects.

The counterweight is homemade from an old pair of jeans (the leg), a hander, some thread and nice amount of gravel.