Amateur or freelance photographers can build a reflector at home
Correct lighting is vital to good photography. It's something photographers need ways of managing. A reflector dissolves backlight problems by allowing you to control light sourcing. It does this by reflecting ambient light, or your camera's flash, off its surface and onto your subject. You change the lighting by moving the reflector.
Professional reflectors are expensive. You can build one at home, though, that does everything the professional models do and more; if you build it yourself, you can modify it. You won't get that flexibility out of a "pro" reflector.
Instructions
Constructing the Stand
1. Drill a 1/4-inch hole in the center of a T-connector, opposite the T-stem. This should fit snugly over the screw in your tripod. Tighten it with the wing-nut.
2. Push the 31-inch PVC pipe into the top of the T-connector. Put the last T-connector on top so that its lateral sockets point left and right.
3. Attach two 4-inch pipes into the remaining openings on the bottom T-connector, and two 6-inch pipes to the top.
4. Attach a 90-degree elbow to the end of each pipe. Insert a 2-inch pipe into the end of each elbow.
5. Attach an elbow connector to the two 2-inch pipes on the bottom. Make sure that these face forward: they support the foamboard from the bottom.
6. Attach 2-inch pipes to the two elbows on top of the frame, and attach the remaining two elbows to those. Make sure the elbows point to the sides.
7. Attach the last 4-inch pipes to the elbows on top.
8. Place the foamboard onto the frame. The bottom two elbows should support it like a bike rack, while the top two hold it in place.
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