My Diy Horizontal Flash holder

[diyphotography]

Hi,
I was looking to build for some horizontal flash holders for my flash set.
Advantages:
Can be easily used with brollys.
Much more stable when mounting your flash on top of a trigger and only then attaching it to a studio light stand.
Get more even lighting using umbrellas and similar light modifiers.

Here is how it looks:



The full tut is here :
http://www.diyphotographystuff.info/...ucks-per-unit/
I'll be happy for comments here and on my site too!
TNX, Moshe diyphotographystuff.info

[drh681]

Good Idea. what about just drilling and tapping the bar and using a 1/4-20 stud? two parts instead of three.
maybe some silicone rubber for the pad and self gripping velcro? (I'm not a fan of rubber bands for holding brealkable stuff)

[diyphotography]

Good Idea. what about just drilling and tapping the bar and using a 1/4-20 stud? two parts instead of three.
maybe some silicone rubber for the pad and self gripping velcro? (I'm not a fan of rubber bands for holding brealkable stuff)

In the post on my site I mentioned the option to use velcro to attach the flash, I acctually found something that will be great for such uses -
Bicycle Pants Velcro Band Leg Strap - sells for 2$ for a pair,
but I like the rubber bands better , still looking for better rubber bands (if you know of better rubber bands selling on eBay I'd be happy to see that)

[BobF]

Not entirely seeing all your advantages here. I get that it may be more stable than mounting via the shoe. But I don't get the more even light idea. That doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. I think the velcro straps would be preferable to velcro strips on the flash and the plate. Both from an aesthetics and stability standpoint.

[drh681]

Bob, when the flash is mounted to a shoe style optical slave, and then mounted to the umbrella bracket, the centerline of the flash is moved well off the centerline of the umbrella.
Not too big a problem with a shoot through, but it can do funny things to the light path for a reflector.
There are several commercial solutions for the same problem.
I kind of like this because it might let you optimize the distance of the flash from the apex of the umbrella.(sort of like a focusing flashlight)
What about "Bongo Bytes" insted of wrapped elestics?

[BobF]

Yeah, that I understand. There was no mention of an optical slave. Does anybody still use those? With radio triggers and flashes with built-in slaves and wireless capability, those optical slaves are sort of like Dodo birds.

[diyphotography]

Hi Bob,
Here are some quick photos I took with a more simple horizontal flash holder (rubber bands + small flash hotshoe light stand):