DIY Snoots Test Shots

Here are some test shots of the snoots I built. In the following photos, the flash head is 5'8" from the white wall. My SB-800 is set to 1/128 power and 105mm zoom. Bare flash Cardboard snoot with white edge facing out Cardboard snoot with dark edge facing out. The snoot drooped down a little which is why the spot of light is about 6" lower than the previous photo. Foam sheet snoot My portrait setup. The distance of the flash head does not change between snoots, but my foam sheet snoot is one inch longer than the cardboard snoot. Me and the foam sheet snoot Me and the cardboard snoot with the white edge facing out Me and the cardboard snoot with the dark edge facing out My face looks warmer with the cardboard snoot + white edge when compared to the cardboard snoot + dark edge. I reshot the photos (not posted) without changing the setup nor the camera settings and I got exactly opposite results. I'm not sure what happened. Conclusions: The cardboard snoot is heavy, so it tends to droop. I like the durability of the foam sheet snoot, but I don't like how its floppiness prevents it from consistently pointing straight, so it sometimes droops as well. The floppiness can also cause kinks in the tube. Furthermore, my velcro design makes it difficult to attach it to the flash. My next foam sheet snoot will forgo the velcro and be a permanent tube. Although it appears that the edges of the cardboard snoop + white edge are not as well defined as the cardboard snoop + dark edge, the difference is too slight for it to matter to me. In the end, it appears that all my self-portraits look very similar. Any significant differences between them can be attributed to poor aiming of the flash (e.g. the droopiness factor).