Home made snoots - cheap as chips!

[Hacker]

I was bored this evening and after finding the HonlPhoto Speed Snoot I thought I'd have a crack at making something to do the same job.

After rooting around the garage I decided to keep it simple and use some card and gaffer tape. As you can see from this image I made two of differing lengths:

First test shot with the shorter snoot, it has a reasonably tight light throw and it seems to be okay for a bodge job.....

The longer version might need a Mark II version as it has shiny cardboard on the inside and this appears to have caused some reflections although the spot of light is noticeably tighter on this one.....

 

[macmike]

Nice.

Might be a daft question, but what do you intend to use it for?

 

[Hacker]

They are handy if you want to concentrate a beam of light. Now I've made it I'll have to find something to use it for.

 

[Gandhi]

I made one of these once using a kitchen toll tube and some softer cardboard to build the tube-flash interface. Worked great and was very good for casting small pools of light at close range and rim-lighting from behind fnarr fnarr

 

[macmike]

Actually having thought about it, that might be quite cool if you have a few of them and want to highlight certain areas of a subject... Would be interested to see what you come up with!

I'm reminded of a few scenes in American Beauty. There's some really amazing lighting in there.

It's strange, but lighting is such a complex and important thing, yet so often composition and focus overshadow it. (terrible pun not intended).

Just my thoughts as a (relative) beginner.