{"id":67,"date":"2007-08-23T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetneil.com\/tangents\/flash-photography-techniques\/11-flash-brackets\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T00:12:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T04:12:58","slug":"flash-brackets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/flash-photography-techniques\/flash-brackets\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash brackets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flash Photography Techniques<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe best flashgun?<\/a>\u00a0 ~ \u00a0Flash brackets \u00a0~ \u00a0Off-camera flash<\/a>
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Using a rotating flash bracket<\/h1>\n

Rotating flash brackets are (cumbersome) devices attached between the camera and flash, which enables the flash to always be over the camera.\u00a0 Since the flash is always overhead of the camera with a flash bracket, regardless of whether you’re shooting horisontally or vertically, there is no sideways shadow. This is especially important if you use direct flash to some extent, or a flash modifier on your camera.<\/p>\n

With most of my wedding photography indoors,\u00a0I get by without a flash bracket. In carefully bouncing on-camera flash<\/a>, I can get images such as this one below. No hard flash shadow detectable.\u00a0Digital photography technology is steadily improving\u00a0to the point where we now have cameras with fairly clean 1600 ISO settings, and very usable 3200 ISO. It is now ever more easy to get great results with bounce flash, and have all the light from the flash be indirect.\u00a0 With this, the need for me to use a flash bracket, has been greatly reduced.\u00a0It is now possible for me to get vertical images like these, using on-camera flash, with no trace of sideways shadows …. because there is no light thrown directly forward from the flash itself.\u00a0 It is all indirect.\u00a0 This means there will be no\u00a0noticeable flash\u00a0shadow.<\/p>\n

However, a flash bracket would still give you an\u00a0advantage when you bounce flash such that all the light is indirect – and that is that\u00a0the direction of your light source remainds\u00a0the same between vertical and horizontal photos taken from the same position. This consistency in lighting can help.<\/p>\n

The photo above is the\u00a0Custom Brackets Pro-M<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0rotating bracket (affiliate<\/em>). Here is my\u00a0review of this flash bracket<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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