A DIY snoot is something I rustled up during a photo and consisted of an A3 black card rolled into a tube held in place manually. Admittedly it was too long but there will be a critical length verses diameter to achieve a wide but straight beam of light. I am puzzled why the party straws are required and would like to see with and without. In a book titled 'Light for the professional' pp46, shows a professional snoot with different light effect ends to beam lots of individual straight lights to a subject forming a shotgun effect. I imagine these ends are optional.
I am going to see of a Pringles tube lined with foil does the same job and would be more permanent than a rolled up piece of card, as I had before.
'Light for the professional', Richard Hunecke, pp46 shown below.
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