Mounting Flashes Anywhere

If you’re going to wind up putting your flash on a light stand, I recommend buying a Bogen/Manfrotto Spring Clamp with Flash Shoe (better known in the industry as simply a “Justin Clamp”). This is just the handiest little gizmo and you’ll love it for three reasons: (1) Your flash slides into a little plastic hot shoe on the top of the clamp, and that clamp is connected to a miniature ballhead that lets you easily and instantly position your flash in any direction or at any angle. So, instead of moving the light stand every time you want to change the angle of the flash, you just move that little ballhead. (2) It has a large clamp on one end, so if setting up a light stand isn’t practical (or isn’t allowed), you can clamp it onto just about anything, from a railing, to a tree branch, to a ceiling tile. These sell for around $56.50 (at B&H Photo, anyway), and it’s one of those accessories that once you use it, you’ll never go anywhere without it.