DIY Snoot!

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So... I got a little lazy and didn't do an OCF weekly portrait this week.  Instead, for some reason my mind was preoccupied with snoots.  I was browsing around and it looks like the honl speed snoot retails for 29.99.  When I saw it, it was just a piece of fabric with velcro.  I wanted to buy one, but just couldn't justify the cost.

SO...  I went to the fabric store.  I came back with foot of canvas.  I wanted to get some sort of black fabric that was thick and could hold shape.  I ended up with canvas, but they didn't have black.  And instead of waiting or going to another store, I bought the darkest color they had which was a Navy Blue.  Add to that some sew on velcro and I spend a total of:

1 Foot Navy Blue Canvas = $1.86

1 packaage of sew on velcro = $3.49

Tax (9.25%) = $.50

Total Spent = $5.85

After almost 2 hours of careful measuring, cutting, pinning, and sewing.  This is what I ended up with.  I was pretty happy with it.  It fit nicely over the velcro speedstrap on any one of my strobes.

But does it work???  Only one way to find out!

GAH!!!  I was afraid the light would be tinted.  And as you can see, it's totally blue!  Not at all what I wanted.  But it wasn't unexpected.  It was good to make one though and the next time should be much quicker than 2 hours to complete one.  Gotta go find some black canvas.

Not bad for $5.85 worth of materials.  I save almost $25 from making this instead of purchasing one.  DIY FTW!

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