I did a search here, and nothing showed.
What I'm looking for are some photos of your flash bracket set-ups for HS football.
Either over or under the camera, preferably over. I have the under part figured out, to mount it under the camera on the monopod, but trying to figure out how to get it above(high enough) while still using the monopod.
I'm kinda liking the look of that bracket. By any chance do you have a closer shot of how it is attached? Is the bracket attached to your camera body tripod socket or the lens foot?
I use a Bogen superclamp and an umbrella mount to mount my flash under the camera on a monopod, but I'm liking the look of the 233B shown above. I do like the fact that when mounted under the camera the flash is able to light up the faces, but I hate the weird shadow it casts behind the player.
Fish On wrote:
Lens is mounted on the bracket and the bracket is mounted on the monopod.
Yep. The bracket mount attaches between the lens ring and the monopod.
Larry Gasinski wrote:
I use a Bogen superclamp and an umbrella mount to mount my flash under the camera on a monopod, but I'm liking the look of the 233B shown above. I do like the fact that when mounted under the camera the flash is able to light up the faces, but I hate the weird shadow it casts behind the player.
Yep, that's exactly why I switched from the SuperClamp mounted below to the Monfrotto bracket mounted above... when mounted below, you get massive Monster Shadows... I'm amazed how far they cast onto the stands, the crowd, trees, buildings in the background etc.
A couple of things I liked better about mounting below... you get up under the facemask and lower center of gravity.
But mounted up high you have further reach, the lighting is more natural coming from above like the field lights (or the sun if it was daytime), the shadows are more natural and are cast to the ground.
When I hand-hold (in the vertical-portrait orientation) instead of using the monopod, I mount the bracket to the 1D2 and straighten the Manfrotto so it's one long bracket (instead of the 90-degree bend L- shape)... this also give me another few inches of flash height.
Also, I found that I prefer the ALZO off-camera shoe cord better than the Canon OC-E3... it has a looser coil, more slack, and it has a metal mount with an adjustable angle pivot, not plastic. And it's cheaper ($23.95 shipped on ebay)... ships from US, not China. Check out ebay 390032076337... seller's name is "alzo_digital_photography"
And most of you probably already figured out that you can just loosen the tripod ring-mount and pivot the camera body to shoot in vertical/portrait orientation (that's how I shoot 90% of the time for football).
The flash stays up above no matter how your camera is oriented... can't so that as easily with on-camera flash.
