tell me more about flash bracket...

do you use it? which kind? why do you use it? how do you use it?

do a search for "flash bracket" and you'll have enough stuff to read for several days !

Personally, I hate flash brackets. Indoors I bounce the light, and you don't need a bracket to do that. . Outdoors, a flash bracket doesn't make much of a diff.

george m w wrote in post #12312234
do a search for "flash bracket" and you'll have enough stuff to read for several days !

thx!

picturecrazy wrote in post #12312287
Personally, I hate flash brackets. Indoors I bounce the light, and you don't need a bracket to do that. . Outdoors, a flash bracket doesn't make much of a diff.

i saw a clip of a fashion photographer...she carries around a flash bracket
i wonder how she uses it...

For professional use, quality flash brackets permit the following:

• Always keeps flash centered above the centerline of the lens, regardless of camera orientation, to prevent objectionable 'side shadow'
  
• Always keeps the flash head pointed up to the ceiling, regardless of camera orientation, without the need to re-adjust the flash to keep it pointed upward
  
• Moves flash upward from axis of the lens, for increased red-eye prevention
  
• Permits the camera to rotate CCW to portrait orientation, so that users of battery grips can continue to have the supplemental control buttons in the right hand