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I think the cheap collapsible light stands worked great and were very easy to work with. Most realtors are happy if you hit two of the three, but they want to pick which two.īack to the subject, though. It is hard to provide all three with consistency. I find there is a triangle in real estate photography - the three Q's - Quickness, Quantity, Quality. I will still provide that sort of RE photography if needed or requested. It still required a little longer set up time and I found that most clients wanted me to get in and out as quickly as possible, so I went back to just shooting standard brackets. You tend to get used to where the flash units work best and can buzz along quite well after some practice. However, in order to shoot like that, it added about an hour minimum to each property and I got pretty quick about setting it up. I found as long as you didn't drop the flash units or triggers or slam the light stands in a door this system worked extremely well and lasted a long time. For all this gear it cost me somewhere around $500 and I used the hell out of it.

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I also kept at least 3 Yongnuo triggers in my bag and powered everything with Panasonic Eneloop Pro rechargeable batteries.

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I also used six Yongnuo 560 IV manual flash units and a Yongnuo 560-TX controller so I didn't have to move to adjust power on the individual flash modules. I find that lighting equipment for real estate photography takes a beating if you shoot that way - I used three cheap light stands that I got on Amazon along with some generic flash brackets (with umbrella holders). It might be possible to stuff 4 of these small lightweight tripods in one bag. I just received a pair of the 42', 2 for $22, bags to store some camping cots and they are good value at around $11ea. Steve Kaeser Photography ( ) has a good deal on tripod bags to put these in. The point of using these as light stands is that they are only holding up something weighing a few ounces and are so cheap that they are disposable (recyclable) when they inevitably get broken. Why people will spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a camera package and then buy the cheapest tripod to put it on baffles me. The last thing you ever want to do is put your camera on one. If you find one that will work, buy several. There is almost no way to list part numbers as these tripods are made by anonymous factories in China under a one shipment only brand name/model number much of the time. You can also purchase online but you won't be able to get a good enough look to see how easy it will be to modify. Feet with plastic threads don't last very long. Look for ones with a brass screw fitting to attach the quick release plate from the tripod head. (Target, Best Buy, Wally World, Kmart, Sears, etc) The plastic speedlight foot can be purchased from eBay if you didn't get one with your speedlight. Most big box stores have these types of tripods in stock if they sell any camera gear. One thing to remember is the flash doesn't have to sit perfectly flat on the top of the tripod to be perfectly functional. There are likely other ways of modifying other tripods. Scott or Barry have a video tutorial have a build video that lets you see how the rod of the umbrella needs to pass through the head to work properly. The Slik model heads are designed in a way that allows for modifying them to hold umbrellas. The brand name is S L I K rather than S I L K, but any tripod of a similar build will work.

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