How to use snoots in photography
A snoot is a light modifier that you mount directly onto your off-camera flash or studio light. Its cone-shaped features limit light spread by eliminating any excess spill light that leaves your flash unit. As a result, you get a clean-cut spotlight and controlled highlights with sharp shadow edges without lighting the whole scene.
Play around with the snoot and experiment! For example, if you move the light source closer to the subject, you get a softer light fall-off, whereas if you move it further away, you get harder light. You can also use it to illuminate small areas in an image, such as highlighting hair in a portrait or a particular object in a still life image.
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Profoto's product expert Chris Fain explains what a snoot is and how it affects the light.Get to know Profoto's snoots
Profoto's product expert Chris Fain demonstrates Profoto's range of snoots and how to use them with a flash.What's the difference?
Snap-on snoot for A-series flashes.
Diameter: 7.5 cm / 2.95 in
Collapsible: Yes
Adapter needed: No
Snoot for battery-powered monolights.
Diameter: 10 cm / 3.94 in
Collapsible: Yes
Adapter needed: no
Snoot used with the standard Zoom Reflector for mains-powered monolights and ProHeads.
Diameter: 10 cm / 3.94 in
Collapsible: No
Adapter needed: No