My first maternity shoot... CC please

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A few wraps of wide masking tape, wrapped around the bottom of a tripod leg makes a pretty decent lint brush....tear off a piece, have the subject wrap it around his or her hand, and make the sticky side be on the outside, then have them do a pat-down...it takes up like virtually NO space. You can even just wrap it around a piece of dowel or a ballpoint pen barrel, and have plenty of "lint brush" in the space of a slightly-fatter-than-stock ball-popint pen. The Bic brand ballpoint pens, the ones with the clear barrel and the five sides (remember junior high??? the spit-ball-shooting ballpoint!!!) are easy to get the tape started coming off of.

If you're a big spender, you can use "real" black low-tack gaffer's tape too, and pre-wrap some onto the pen, and that's an easy way to carry it around without the PITA of a doggone roll of tape floating around in your bag or pack...

Gah, I love DIY hacks like this!