If there’s one area of photography I could improve upon, it’s studio photography, so I jumped at the chance to watch Adorama and Gavin Hoey’s ‘3 Smart Ways to Use Grip Arms in Photography’. What’s a grip arm? I hear you say. Well, as Gavin points out, a grip arm – sometimes misidentified as a boom arm – is an extendable rod with a grip that can be used to position lighting, modifiers, flags, and generally acts as a very useful bit of lighting kit.
