Photography, Leatherworks, Digital Art and Design
What has always annoyed me is that my speedlights are not in the middle of my umbrella. But what is that, I still have a Smallrig camera handle in my camera bag. On the handle there are some threads for spigots and some cold shoe adapters That’s great. So I get the flash in the middle of my umbrella.
A german tutorial for making nice “TRIGGER BUTTONS” for STREAM DECK and OBS STUDIO using a PHOTOSHOP action.
You can download the Action for the “back and forth gif” here:
(I think you must use the german language version of Photoshop)
Now, finally, I have found two cheap solutions to mount my studio flashes.
One, to mount it to Alutruss with a Half Coupler.
One, to mount the flash near the ground with a floor stand.
First, I drove to Cologne. There is a small company called “Abelz Filmzubehör” they offer various Spigots.
They also can build custom models for you. The most used way to mount a Studioflash is a 16mm spigot.
I bought two spigots with 10 mm internal thread.
I took one of my Clamp’s which already have a 10mm screw.I only had to turn the Spigot on the screw.
Then I grabbed an old Warning triangle, tore off the foil and the reflectors. I drilled a hole in the middle, and mount the Spigot on the Stand. And ready… here is it:
I set up a Striplight Softbox with Grid, mounted on a Starlight500.
I put the flash on a stand over us,50 degrees down for hair light.
The Softbox also creates a little spill light for the background.
One Starlight500 mounted with a BarnDoor and a yellow gel,
straight up under the hole of the Box.
I call it the “Pandora Box Light”.
Third Studio Flash with a snoot for the lighting of the outer box.
Camera controlled remotely, you see the remote in my hand 🙂
Here is the Lightingdiagram:
klick on picture to enlarge…
here it is ….
‘klick for fullsize’
