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How to make your own portable gaffer’s tape roll

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Your regular role of gaffers tape is sometimes to big to fit into your camera bag, so what do you do when you still need it with you but you can’t carry it. You make a portable version.

Supplies
One roll of gaffer’s  tape
A knife or pair of scissors
A piece of cardboard

First step

Cut out a piece of cardboard in the width of the roll of gaffer tape. The width you make your piece of cardboard will determine the size of your role.

Second step

Simply cover one side of your piece of cardboard with gaffer’s tape and roll it over itself until you have reached your desired size.
Congratulations!

Other places to store gaffer’s tape:

Around the leg of a tripod, monopod, and/or light stand
Your lens hood
Pens

Store Setup

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Bob Carroll, owner of John Hyatt

Bob Carroll, owner of John Hyatt

iPhone pic - About 2 feet to left of where I wound up standing to take the final image

Set up from a photo shoot last week.

Not enough room for the big guns since we kept the store open durning the shoot.

*Photo info* 1 SB-800 on the left and a SB-900 on the right with small soft boxes for key and fill and a SB-600 in the back left as a background and hair light and it has a gobo to stop flair from going into the camera and against the back of the subject

New Purchase, Multi-Cart R-6

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Multi-Cart R-6

iPhone pic – All loaded up and ready to head out of the hotel

I was in NYC for the B&H event by Photoshelter’s Grover Sanschagrin on Tuesday.

So since I was at B&H I wound up buying something from the used section, that doesn’t happen a lot…, anyways I picked up a Multi-Cart R-6. My bags were getting to heavy to carry and I work by myself a lot so I needed a way to move my Lowepro Pro Roller 3 filled with all of the camera and light gear, my Tenba CCT46 TriPak with all the light stands and odd grip equipment along with the background paper.

The cart holds the roller on its side with the light stand bag in the other corner resting on top of the roller and the background goes on the top of the bag. I am still trying to decide if I should use bungee cords or straps to hold it all in place.

I chose this cart because it was small enough to fit in my car and not take up to much space while being able to handle my gear. I will be using it this weekend when I go down to Washington D.C. and Philly to shoot some more headshots. I will post a full review after I put it though its paces.