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in this video were talking about sticks
that's right folks we refer to basically
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any type of stand tripod anything you'd
hang lights or kemron we refer to as a
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stick you guys can call whatever you
like but I like calling them sticks ok
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Logan is going to help me out because we
have a bunch of these sticks to show you
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also Logan wanted to give me first hour
tripod number 1 keep me the tripod yes
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did you see is lovely hands Logan has
such beautiful hands could be a hand
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model ok so this is the me photo and
this is actually the photo glow drew
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globetrotter carbon fiber ok have
several different versions of their
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they're trying to have their me photo
road trip as well as the globe trotter
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the road trip is a little bit of a less
expensive smaller tripod the globe
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trotter is just a little bit bigger hold
more weight and so forth anything
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getting both variants in either just the
standard aluminum or carbon fiber optic
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on fire gives a little bit stronger more
durable and it's also lighter alright so
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these guys they start from anywhere
between 250 all the way up to $350
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depending on whether you're buying the
aluminum or carbon fiber variants but
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this is one area I would say this we've
used a ton of tripods and there's lots
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of fantastic tripod brands out there
there's a lot of brand that you can
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invest in like really right stuff they
make great tripods great and dampers and
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mountain so forth but you gonna spend a
lot of money on them
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granted the gonna last forever there's
also a lot of really cheap tripod out
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there that basically you spend 50 bucks
on and no last for six months and in a
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breaking it again repurchase every
single six months or every year going to
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buy nor tripods what we found from all
of our testing from our usage is that me
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photo offers a fantastic product at a
great value so based on the price
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yes it's not the least expensive tripod
out there and it's also not the most
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expensive but what you're getting for
that price is a fantastic product that's
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one of the areas I would recommend it
just spending money on don't always go
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with the cheapest option because in the
long run it will end up costing you more
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now this tripod features the quarter
twist legs ok so I kinda dig the quarter
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twist legs makes it very easy and simple
to open and close they also have the
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snapping like the ones that kind of
click Close which are great too
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quarter twist is kinda too simple but
each one of them does have their own
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like advantages and disadvantages
sometimes the quarter twist noms these
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need to be tightened or loosened every
now and then but you can see how small
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this will hold up to an actually in its
travel mode it gets even smaller because
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the legs can actually fold up so you can
basically turn the head just a little
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bit and then pull the legs up right here
so we can put this into uber travel mode
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will this will fit into any carry-on
case ok so these guys get really really
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small check that out of my fault I but
the other thing that's cool about this
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is that they feature artists with plates
and these artists was placed are
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incredibly inexpensive to get you can
get targets was placed on Amazon for
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like 10 bucks which is nice because we
constantly lose tripod plates and so we
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don't buy 20 $30 plates for these guys
all rights and that's it for our tripod
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now let's go ahead and show you are most
typical light stand this is the
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Manfrotto nano stand ok now as you can
see this guy is is not very robust in
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terms of like it's not designed to hold
a lot of weight we use this for
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basically are single flash mounted light
stand when we're typically shooting
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bearable if you are shooting with an
umbrella or you're doing whatever
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modification to this you need to make
sure that this is weighted and that you
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know preferably someone holding it
because it's really not the kind of
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stand you want to put a lot of weight on
but these are the stencil use in like
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the corners of a wedding reception now
using on engagement shoot with her bare
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building in those kind of things because
they're small they're very unobtrusive
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and so they can get in a very easily we
also have on top of this just a little
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adapter you can buy these adapters on
Amazon to suggest an umbrella adapter
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West comics a fantastic one that's very
durable and this allows you to mount
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your not only your flash but also your
umbrella onto their these are known as
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by the way cold shoe flash bounce or
cold shoe adapter so cold shoe umbrella
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adapters we're gonna call but they
distinguish between called you versus a
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hot shoe because the cold shoe does not
trigger your flash basically case of
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coaches don't trigger flash hot shoes
are designed to actually have a
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Singapore so you can actually sing to
the hot shoe and it will trigger the
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flash so this is just an inexpensive
cold shoe adapter and their leg between
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10 to 20 bucks I so you could see how
small this guy gets when he pulled him
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up as well he goes up to about six feet
roughly this guy cos about 65 bucks and
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yes again there are cheaper options out
there ok you can get lie stands for 20
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bucks the problem is they don't last
long time this guy has you know we meet
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Justin Chris we've used these on
hundreds of shoot each year and we're
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still on the original set that we have
purchased the only time I ever break if
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you step on where you been them in half
or some like that but these are
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extremely durable little guys are very
lightweight very small they fit easily
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in a travel on bag and so forth so
commander of really gonna last much
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longer than any $20 lie Stanwood alright
we're done with that guy give me d been
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through a monopod now this guy is a
bedroom monopod is with the s4 head it's
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about 200 bucks now of course you can
buy less expensive my iPods for just
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mounting your lighting gear but here's
what I would say do not go and purchase
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$2,000 of lighting gear and then put it
on a $20 AmazonBasics monopod that's
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just a recipe for disaster
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this is our go-to monopod and this by
the way the actual legacy self is a 48
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