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Speedlite foot is that little plastic thing that usually comes in the same package with your new speed lite, and at first looks absolutely useless. (you might think).
In this episode David Bergman with AdoramaTv will prove otherwise and show you just how versatile the speed lite foot could be!
David suggests: “[Speedlite foot] is actually quite handy. It’s a tiny little stand that you can attach to the bottom of your flash when shooting with your flash off camera.”
“You’ll find that the foot can be used a lot of different ways depending on where you want to place your light. It can be used just by itself when you want to put your flash on the ground. On a shelf or on any flat surface.”
” If your flash has a head that pivots, you can then aim it up or down from there.” What about getting the flash into other positions?
David continues: “If you look under the bottom of that shoe, you’ll see it has a standard quarter inch thread, so that opens up all kinds of other mounting solutions.”
“Just with the shoe alone, you can put your flash on top of any light stand that has a quarter inch thread.”
“You can also pick up a relatively inexpensive umbrella swivel adapter. Some of them already come with a cold shoe, but if it doesn’t, you can attach the foot and use that instead. That will allow you to pivot the flash in any direction, and attach a photo umbrella if you want to.”
” You can also put the foot on to other things, like a ball head, a magic arm or a gorilla pod, to give you unlimited flexibility. Since I keep my flash in its case, I always have the foot available, and haven’t ever lost it.”
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