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Baby plates

Baby plates

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Baby plates

- The baby plate, which by the way has nothing to do with actual babies, it's also called many other things. It's called the wall plate, a pigeon, a nail-on plate. That's because you can nail it onto a wall, and then mount a light onto it, or mount any kind of a modifier. You'll notice it has these little holes here. You can nail it in, you can screw it in. But it's great because you can just mount it onto a wall, put it there. You can also put it onto the floor and make a really short light stand that's very sturdy. If you want some flexibility, you can screw it into an apple box and then move that apple box around. So it's one of those little pieces of equipment that at first blush doesn't look like I'll really use this, and I found that these are one of the most useful pieces of equipment that I can bring with me or just keep around my set. Now you might want to ask yourself, why is it called a baby plate? Well it originally was used to mount light fixtures that had a baby…

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