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Useful Photography Tip

Useful Photography Tip #11: Use Belts to Fit a Shoot Through Umbrella To a Flash

Chris Gampat
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02/25/2012
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Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Easy Hack Shoot Through Umbrella with Rubber Bands and Rogue Flash Bender (2 of 3)

We love, love, love our lighting modifiers here at The Phoblographer. We also love hacks. The other day while on a gig, I was trying to figure out how to use a shoot through umbrella with my speedlite. Because I didn’t have the correct bracket with me, I needed to improvise.

Using a Rogue Flash Bender and a rubber band, I was able to develop a great setup to use a shoot through umbrella.

This is how it’s done: you’ll need to slip the rubber band over the flash head first. Then slip the umbrella under the band and through a good way.

Then, you’ll need to carefully hold the package and attach the Rogue Flash Bender onto the head for extra security. You can then tilt the bender upward to essentially not affect the light output and set the bender to only hold the umbrella in place.

Since a shoot through umbrella generally needs to be aimed directly at your subject, you’ll have no trouble at all keeping the flash head in the downward position and your umbrella will be nice and even.

And just like that, you’re ready to shoot.

Be sure to check out all of our other useful photography tips for more tricks and solutions.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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