Today’s Strobist lesson, kids, is light restriction. I made a free cardboard snoot about 11 inches long to fit over my flash head and throw a narrow beam of light. (Gina cracked up when I told her it was called a snoot. She cracked up further when she surveyed the dining room and saw my myriad homemade pitcher-taking accessories.) I was a little surprised at just how narrow my snoot made the beam. It made a rectangle of about 2 feet by 1 foot on he wall when shot from about 7 feet away.
The point of the exercise is to see how light restriction affects your photographs. You can see here the light hits the side of Gina’s face and falls off quickly at the top of her forehead. It falls off quickly at the bottom, too, but that’s off camera in this shot. She was sitting inches from the wall, but by shooting from about 45 degrees from the flash, the area of the wall the light actually hit is out of the shot.
I made the same shot of the Abe Lincoln bust I bought for $15 at the charity e-mail auction held at the office. Abe has been a patient photographic subject, but he’s all coppery colored and I don’t really like the actual photos of him. The real Lincoln wasn’t all that photogenic, either.
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Gina looks as if she could shoot you.