A Snoot

Ever hear of a snoot? It's a little photo gadget that enables you to concentrate the light from your flash for dramatic cinematic lighting! Would you say this qualifies as dramatic? If I had used the flash "normally" the whole room would have been illuminated....(nothing WRONG with that, it just wasn't what I was looking for) In order to limit where we let the beams of the flash travel, we need to make a little cover for the flash. You can buy these at the camera shop, but I'm gonna show you how to make one for about a dollar. Aren't you lucky? First get some self adhesive velcro (you know if I was on TV I'd have to call that "hook and loop tape" but since I'm not famous, I get to call it VELCRO!) :P And one sheet of black fun foam. And a pair of scissors. Wrap the foam around your flash, add a bit of extra for overlap, then stick on the velcro. (Now this won't hold if you were out shooting in a tornado or something, but it will hold perfectly for your quick little photo shoots!) And come to think of it, I don't think you should be shooting a tornado anyway! NO snoot: WITH snoot: (And let me add right here, that it definitely DOESN'T need to be this long - This is just the width of the foam. Try it out and then do some trimming.) "Sometimes what makes a photo sing is not so much where the light is, but where it isn't." David Hobby