Setting up lighting stands.. Stands should be used depending on need. Note the stand's footing orientation releative to loads placed on the stand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kdxPmcqyU
Recently purchase a few Neewer stainless steel C-stands, surprised at how good they are for their cost. Been using them with a Mathews mini boom for Elinchrom flash heads and everything from a 27" dia beauty dish to 180cm Plume wafer octo soft box with good stability. Appears Neewer has distribution in the EU:
https://eu.neewer.com/products/neewe...4cdc18c2&_ss=r
As for the current variety of battery powered cordless/wireless flash units, depends on lighting needs and lighting modifiers needed. Majority of digital images do not need whopping flash power. This is why most of these cordless/wireless flash units have about 100 watt/seconds of strobe power. Even with a modest light modifier and flash to subject distances this is often enough to achieve about f8 or less, enough for portrait images with these exposure apertures. Once in to sheet film and smaller exposure apertures that 100 watt/seconds will never do. Strobe power needs rapidly grows to 1000 watt/seconds and much more.
Lighting, light modifiers drives ligh stands as needed. For a small battery powered strobe unit, a small tripod light stand will easily do. With a 8000 watt/second flash head and BIG light modifier using nothing less than a stout light stand, proper sand bagging and all becomes a must.
Bernice
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