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The Stand That Wasn't: A Studio Safety Wake-Up Call
When Your Lighting Rig Becomes a Liability I’ve been setting up studio lights for twenty years, and I can tell you with absolute certainty: there’s no such thing as being too careful with your stands. Yet somehow, this lesson keeps catching photographers off guard—myself included, back in the day. A video circulating on social media recently captured what many of us consider a worst-case scenario. A lighting stand, weighed down by a flash unit, toppled over without warning.