{"id":1158,"date":"2008-09-30T10:54:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T10:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2008-09-30T10:54:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T10:54:29","slug":"light-painting-with-the-kit-lens-as-a-snoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Light Painting With The Kit Lens As A Snoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can do light painting with a flash that can be set to manual power. How?<\/p>\n<p>First, turn off all your lights!<\/p>\n<p>Put the camera on a tripod with a 10 second timer so you have time to grab the flash and start painting. I set the flash at its maximum zoom (105mm for my Sony HVL-F58AM) at 1\/8th power and pressed the Test button around the subject, pretending to be stage light.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/opsnoot1a.jpg\"><br \/>\n50mm F8 ISO800, 25 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Whoops that&#8217;s overexposed &#8211; let&#8217;s stop it down a bit more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/opsnoot3a.jpg\"><br \/>\n50mm F11 ISO400, 25 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, that&#8217;s better! However, I accidentally got the flash head in the shot. Supposing I wanted to simulate smaller stage light, I&#8217;d need to snoot the light (in other words, shrink the size of the light.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/opsnoot2a.jpg\"><br \/>\n50mm F11 ISO400, 25 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>How did I snoot it?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/opsnoot4a.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Using a Sony 18-70mm F3.5-5.6 DT kit lens with a rubber hood attached! Alpha mount lenses by default close down the aperture blades when not attached to a camera. Thus, when the lens is at 18mm, it is at its darkest aperture of F22, where its opening is 18mm\/22 = 0.818mm wide!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using a different mount lens, make sure it has an aperture ring so you can set the aperture manually. Canon EF\/EF-S lenses have electronically controlled apertures so they cannot be used.<\/p>\n<p>I hold the snooted flash with the rubber hood in my left hand, and my right hand on the flash to press the Test button.<\/p>\n<p>You may want to experiment with different power settings on your flash as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can do light painting with a flash that can be set to manual power. How? First, turn off all your lights! Put the camera on a tripod with a 10 second timer so you have time to grab the flash and start painting. I set the flash at its maximum zoom (105mm for my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}