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Step 4Reenforcing the hot shoe tab
This is the trickiest part, and the most important. If it doesn't work, your bounce unit will droop, and the pictures won't come out. The bounce just blocks the lower part of the flash, and the upper half of the images comes out bright. This is especially obvious in wider angle shots. (See below for examples of what happens if this goes wrong.)
To reenforce the tab and keep it pointing straight ahead, I used a right angle bracket. The problem was, all of the brackets I had lying around were too thick and interfered with the hot shoe tab (you've got about 3/8" to work with, and my brackets were 1/2"), so I used a little wooden cube I found to raise it up a bit. However you do it, make sure the tab is at 90 degrees to the back, or possibly even a little tiny bit more (the pictures make the angle look farther from 90 degrees than they really are).
To reenforce the tab and keep it pointing straight ahead, I used a right angle bracket. The problem was, all of the brackets I had lying around were too thick and interfered with the hot shoe tab (you've got about 3/8" to work with, and my brackets were 1/2"), so I used a little wooden cube I found to raise it up a bit. However you do it, make sure the tab is at 90 degrees to the back, or possibly even a little tiny bit more (the pictures make the angle look farther from 90 degrees than they really are).
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