Light Tents
Photographer Peter Karlsson has it all worked out when it comes to travel light. Peter is a Strobist at heart and as such he is using small flashes quite a bit. The coolness comes in when you see how he places his flashes in space.
Instead of your orthodox light stand solution Peter uses a home brewed light stand made of tent poles. Those are great for travel for several reasons: There are super light-weight, they fold small and they will definitely make your subject go WOW! Luckily for photographers wold wide there are two vids available that shows how those light stands were made.
Vid 1 - Coolness Introduced to The World (from here)
Vid 2 - The Making of (from here)
Check out the comments on both videos as they have some great advice. Also if you like the concept, say hi and thanks Peter for sharing.
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Peter says...
...hello; greetings from the photographer above. Nice site :-)
re: udi says ;)
Hi Peter,
Nice to have you stop by. I am now a listening on your great RSS.
It's amazing what's laying
It's amazing what's laying around the house that we can turn into handy photography equipment. I have a bunch of tent poles in the garage - this will be one I definitely try. Thanks.
Light Tents? Genius tents!
Wow! This is simply amazing... what a brilliant idea! You are a genius.... I love you man!
Thanks for sharing
Tent poles
Thanks for this great post.
can anyone spesicy the excat type of the tent poles used?
temp..ation
I need a couple of those for some presentations. There are pretty expensive to buy or to rent and if you try a home made thing, the results are really awfull.
Materials
I've used 8 mm diameter, 40 cm alu poles.
Cheers /Peter
adjustability
I would like to see somebody find a way to make the umbrellas adjustable angle-wise for this setup. He explains in the video that you can't adjust the angle and that is kinda a deal killer for some I am sure
to adjust the angle
I have just looked at the movie's.
I really like the idea.
Maybe a solution to adjusting the angle, if you attache a string to the tip of the umbrella and attach it to the top or bottom of the night stand. By shortening the length of the string the umbrella will only rest with the top or bottom on the night stand. So you can adjust the angle slightly.
HI. Greate idea. I will
HI. Greate idea. I will definetlly use it. Thank you very much for sharing.
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