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Use A Dog Bone To Mount A Strobe On Any Trunk, Beam, Pole Or Branch

Dec 27, 2015 by Udi Tirosh Leave a Comment

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If you are doing a lot of outdoor shooting using hot shoe strobes, you need to find a way to place them in three dimensional space. Of course, the trivial way is to use a light stand. But if you shoot in anything other than an open space, photographer Chris Cameron has a nice tip to mount your strobe on any object you can wrap a strap around.

The idea is to use a strap and a 3D printed dog bone, the strap wraps around, say a tree trunk, while the bone provides an anchor for a small clamp.

You would need four components for this system:

  • A strap, Chris is using straps from gotchastraps, but there are similar straps available from generic brands.
  • A bone, you can order Chris’s model from Shapeways, or print one yourself.
  • a nano clamp to attach to the bone.
  • A mini ball head (you can buy both as a kit)
  • and a cold shoe to mount the strobe to the ball head.

Then you mount a strobe in four steps:

1. Strap the tree and the bone together

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2. Clamp the nano and the ball head to the bone

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3. Mount your strobe to the cold shoe. This configuration is even strong enough to hold a swivel with an umbrella if mounted sideways

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Now, making this system from scratch could be quite expensive, but if you’ve been strobing for a while there is a good change that the only thing you are missing is the bone.

[Strobist light (not a) stand trick]

P.S. you can also buy a readymade unit on Chris’s store.

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About Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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