Snoots on a flash gun?

Heres a couple of Snooted stobe portraits I have taken. Rolled up piece of black card held in place with an elastic band

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The last image is actually a crop theres another peron to the left light the same from the other side.
 
MJ Stebbings said:
I guess it depends what price you sell them to us lovely lot for ;)
With the amount of home made ones here and the amout of strobists we have here, it might be a good seller, and even other flash mounted gizmo's that would get the juices flowing of the strobisters among us! :)
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I second that more so if you could manage a set i.e. snoot, gobo, grid
 
MattBristow said:
Heres a couple of Snooted stobe portraits I have taken. Rolled up piece of black card held in place with an elastic band

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The last image is actually a crop theres another peron to the left light the same from the other side.
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Like the second one. :)
 
MJ Stebbings said:
I'm going to have to have a test with a rolled paper snoot thingy, and then see how i get on i guess.
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I have one of these with the two honeycomb grids, They work well and the snoot is made of metal (i think)and takes a good kickin ;)

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Not cheap but at the same time not that much cash tbh, worth looking at mate.

Scott
 
35 quid for a snoot! How about a fiver for 500 black straws and as much cardboard as you need for free! :D
 
I buy 2mm thick roles of neoprene off the dreaded Ebay and a bit of sticky back velcro for next to nothing. Cut the neoprene to whatever size you like and you're away.

I keep three sized for each flash in my kit bag. They just slot down the side of the bag (flat) until I need them.

Sorted :cool:
 
I've made a couple of shoots but should the inside of the snoot be black?

Also a little off topic but I really want to take a portrait where the person is lit but the background is black, The23rdman and Matt would you be able to explain the setup for these shots please?

Thanks
 
I've used a snoot on a flash, but my only concern doing it with a band is that they're going to be moving around a lot if they're performing. If you're trying to aim it at a band member, you may end up with only one shot out of a hundred where your flash is lighting anything other than a wall. :)
 
MarkLP said:
I've made a couple of shoots but should the inside of the snoot be black?

Also a little off topic but I really want to take a portrait where the person is lit but the background is black, The23rdman and Matt would you be able to explain the setup for these shots please?

Thanks
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OK Here we go

I spend nearly all my time taking portraits in peoples homes and not in a nice large studio so this is the technique I use when theres limited space.

The golden thing to remember at all times is your aperture as anything that you illuminate with your strobes will be lit either over or under whatever. Think of it as a sliding scale.

So by way of an example. If you had your subject and you shot them at say 1/125th at f5.6 using a snooted flash you may well find that the background starts to be exposed. So if you stop down a couple of stops, you will also need to stop down your flash as well to avoid over exposing your subject.
To say 1/125th at f9.5 you will find much less of the image will be exposed hopefully giving you very dark areas where the snooted light doesn't fall.

Keep doing this until its about right. To get the very black i.e. Lowkey look I then tend to monkey around in LR with the blacks and contrasts etc until it looks as I want it. Shoot in RAW as well and you can still further tweek the exposure.

Hope this helps. Please also bear in mind that I have never tried to explain how I take a portrait in a studio type environment and I didn't realise just how much is down to 'feel' or 'second nature'. I honestly get the right exposure in 1 or 2 test shots. The best advice is to just practice like mad 1's and 0's are free after all.

If it would be helpfull I'll do some example shots during the week.

Good luck and dont forget to let us know how you get on.
 
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