Light Stands & Boom Arms for Photography

Video Transcript

" Hi! I'm Joey Gunz, Glamor Photographer. You can check out my work on line at www.joeygunz.com. I am here today at Expert Village to talk to you about how you can improve your photography. So let's say for example you are going out and you've made a major investment in one or more mono lights, the ones that we talked about in part 9 of this series. If you haven't seen it, click back and check it out. It's some really good solid information there. Well you've made this investment so what are you going to do. Going to have somebody stand around and hold these moonlights for you all day long. I think not. So you are going to have to invest into some quality light stands or even a boom arm. Now what exactly is a light stand? A light stand is nothing more than a collapsible pole with a tripod like fixture on the back that you can stand up. Now once you stand that light stand up, they are collapsible and telescoping, you make a few adjustments and you can pretty much put any type of photo equipment on them up to and including your mono light. Now this is an invaluable piece of equipment because I guarantee you the $50 to a $150 you spent on your light stand is going to save you a lot of manpower. People really get tired of standing around holding lights for you. The other thing that I want to talk about in conjunction with just a regular light stand is a variation on the light stand principle. It's called a boom arm. Let's say for example you want to hang a piece of lighting equipment or a reflector or light modifier over your subject to give like maybe a top kind of lighting. Well a boom arm is the exact tool that you want to look for. A boom arm is nothing more than a light stand with a 90 degree angle with another arm telescoping pole that operates at 90 degree angle. So we can take this thing, extend it out and actually place a mono light or any other piece of equipment on this particular boom arm and we should be able to point this thing downward. The one thing you want to make sure you do is make sure you always keep your boom arm tightened up really nicely and there is even a little notch hook here on the end of this thing where you can hand counter balance like you might see on a background prop there. So for joeygunz.com, I'm Joey Gunz just teaching you a little bit about improving your photography here on expert village. We'll see you next time. Have a good one!"