Here is the “snoot” we used, it is approximately 6 inches in length. You can see where we attached it with blue tape in the overall set shot. The local hardware store can be a great resource for lighting ideas. You just have to let yourself think outside of the box. Using a black card...
For this shot we moved the tripod and zoomed in a bit. We reduced the key and fill speedlights all by half power from our previous settings, allowing our homemade shop vac snoot speedlight to dominate
This week we have taken it a step further. Same Canon 1-Ds Mark III and same 24-105mm lens, but we revamped the lighting. We had a total of 4 Canon Speedlights 580EX II. One on the camera set to master mode (not firing). The key was set to +0 power with a sepia colored Rosco...
This was a down and dirty simple shot with a Canon 1-Ds Mark III with a 24mm-105mm. One 580EXII in the FourSquare box with the one layer of diffusion on the front. Also bounced another 580EXII into a white card about five feet above the set for fill.
