What do you use to hold stuff?

[michaelb104]

I'm struggling to find a clamp or something to hold stuff that I want to photograph such as flower stems etc etc. 

What do you use?? and where did you get it from??

Thanks
Mike.

[SimonW]

Buy?!!

For your purpose how about a clothes-peg fixed to the end of a stick (pencil) with glue or sticky tape. Sharpen the other end and stick it in the ground, or put a peg on that end as well and fix it to a tree. For smaller items do a similar thing with crocodile clips or the miniature clothes pegs you can get for holding Christmas cards. Cheap and so versatile...

[hevans]

Brilliant (and cheap!) suggestion with the clothes pegs.

I've also seen people making flash mounts from those large 'gator clips in a similar fashion.

[Graham]

  If you really want to buy somthing try this  http://www.warehouseexpress.com/buy-wimberley-the-plamp/p1005586
  Looks like it should do the job.
                     Graham.

[michaelb104]

Thanks for the replies all, why didn't I think of pegs  

[Jonathan]

As a deluxe upgrade for the peg on a stick.....try a peg on a car aerial.  Like a stick but it extends

[minky_monkey]

 

[hevans]

As a deluxe upgrade for the peg on a stick.....try a peg on a car aerial.  Like a stick but it extends

Last peg on a stick like that cost me €30000. Of course it came with a free car...

[picsfor]

then there's the faithful assistant - free if they're family!