From the course: Improving Your Photography and Portraits with Lighting Modifiers
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Using a snoot to modify a flash
From the course: Improving Your Photography and Portraits with Lighting Modifiers
Using a snoot to modify a flash
- What's neat about lighting modifiers, it lets us photographers become extremely creative and become artists. So, during a scene, maybe I want a piece of light or a sliver of light just to hit one part of the scene. This is where we need what's called a snoot. And what a snoot's going to do, it's going to take the light and it's going to aim it directly in one location. Earlier, I talked about a commercial product, a flash bender, as an option to do many things to modify light. Well, it can do one more thing, and that's create the snoot for us. So, if I close it down tight, and make it look just like a tunnel. What this is going to do for us, is we slip the light through, tie it in place, and now we're able to direct the light onto the subject. Now, that's a commercial option. Now, if you don't have this product, we can still produce a snoot using cardboard, or black foil, or cinefoil. Let me show you how we do that. I'm going to take a piece of cinefoil and place it around my…
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