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do you use color gels on flashes?(examples)
Hi I am always looking for ways to experiment with photography and I recently thought of getting color gels for my camera. I actually have one shot in mind that may require a red/orange gel to simulate a lamp in a room. They only cost a few dollars from what I've seen on amazon. Does anyone have any suggestions for a budget gel kit and examples of how they utilized color gels well?  Nov 09 12 08:54 pm Link Yes, sometimes I do. Normaly I shoot journalism and I come to different places with all kinds of different light. Sometimes the lights are too dark to not use a flash. But the flash is ballanced to daylight. And when you have normal (yellow) lightbulbs or tungsten-lights, you start to mix two different kinds of temperatures. It makes pictures horrible. Due to contract I'm not allowed to show pictures here. But this one was flashed with an standard Nikon-supplied orange filter: http://www.pvenews.com/mediafiler/start … splein.jpg Nov 10 12 12:35 am Link Jeremy Dennis wrote: You mean for your flash. Jeremy Dennis wrote: This should get you started, if you're talking about speedlights. Nov 10 12 04:38 am Link Love Gels  Nov 10 12 06:34 am Link PhillipM wrote: Agreed. You can do a lot with them, and I think I've only scratched the surface. Nov 10 12 06:41 am Link do you use color gels on flashes? Only when hot drunk chicks come over to the studio on Saturday night...   Nov 10 12 07:25 am Link this was done with gels on white paper:  you can get gels for speedlites (honl, rogue) or colored sheets that go over studio strobes. or get a barndoors/gel kit for your studio strobe. gelling black can be fun. CTO (orange) gels can be useful as hairlights or to just warm things up a bit. Nov 10 12 07:56 am Link Gel - red obviously: 18+ https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/p … 3#19134543 and purple: 18+ https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/p … 9#19130189 with both on a white background. Nov 10 12 08:23 am Link I don't use them that often but it does work its purpose. I experimented with them during the summer. In one I had a grid on my speedlight pointing at the subject then on another room I had a blue gel on my other speedlight. It changed the mood and it more resembled another time of day. SO yes you can really get creative with them and add more fun.  Nov 10 12 08:50 am Link I want to use them more but i've only used them a couple times so far and only find myself using the blue at the mo https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/ … 5642_n.jpg  Nov 10 12 08:54 am Link I highly recommend you find Niel Snape's page on here and read his blog. Nov 10 12 09:07 am Link 2 blue gels on either side and slightly behind the model, ungelled beauty dish above  Nov 10 12 09:55 am Link robert christopher wrote: It really worked well here. It complements the outfit color. On some other shots I have seen it was better to just use white diffused light. I will add this to my fave list. Its heavenly Nov 10 12 10:09 am Link Two yellow gels on snoots on her hair and a gold one on the speedlight in the treasure chest.  Nov 10 12 12:19 pm Link robert christopher wrote: best use of gels I have seen on MM so far. Excellent work! Gels as a rim light works very well actually. Nov 10 12 12:26 pm Link Here a couple.   Nov 10 12 12:36 pm Link YN-560 gelled with red in the oven, bouncing off crumpled aluminum foil; SB-900 with a blue gel for the cabinets; SB-900 with straw gel for hair; SB-900 with orange gel as a contouring accent. Gels from the HONL kit. I have incinerated a few when not allowing breathing room from the speedlight's fresnel.  Nov 10 12 01:19 pm Link I agree with the suggestion above about checking strobist.com ... there are lots of informations about using color gels for your off-camera flash/strobe lights ...  I use color gels a lot ... mostly 1 stop & 1/3 stop CTO (Color Temp. Orange) ... In this picture ... to lit the model, I had a big softbox with 2 flashes inside it both with 1/4 power (one with 2/3 CTO, the other one is only just diffuser). There are 3 other flashes positioned in the back of the model, all with 1/3 CTO on ... One on the right (nearer to her) to give her a rim light & lit the small tree next to her. Another one on the left & a bit further away ... give her a lil rim & lit the background grasses. The last one ... way back on the right - lit the grasses to add dimension & color to the image ... Off camera light & colored gels are def. FUN ... `alf Nov 10 12 01:52 pm Link robert christopher wrote: Ahhh ... this is beautiful ... nicely done ... Nov 10 12 01:53 pm Link I like all these examples, if you hadn't told me they were color gel flashed i wouldn't have noticed Nov 10 12 03:17 pm Link I use gels from time to time. Here is one that is exaggerated.  And ehre is one more subtle with just a touch of blue.  Gels are relatively cheap. I got a set of 15 for around $30 at a camera store. As with anything they can be overdone. But they can also be impressive. Nov 10 12 05:31 pm Link I did a little experiment with one around Halloween. I cut one out of a plastic blue folder. At first I put it over the lens and took a shot to get a blue picture, then set it as my white balance. Then I put in on the flash so the light coming from the flash would be white again from the camera, and it turned the ambient light red. I thought it was kinda cool.  Nov 10 12 05:48 pm Link To encourage you to buy the full size sheets, pro camera stores will gladly give you the Lee Filters sample book that has dozens of different filters. Those samples (about 1" x 3") magically fit over the head of a speedlight. If you can fire the speedlight remotely, you can then add color to any scene. Nov 10 12 06:00 pm Link Blue on a black background, bastard amber on rim lights  Green on the grey portions of the backdrop, amber on the rim lights  Nov 10 12 06:00 pm Link PhillipM wrote: awesome! Nov 10 12 07:51 pm Link I use coloured gels on studio flash quite often. Sometimes to fill cast shadows with a lighter tone, sometimes using complimentary gels to create effects with "white" light where both fall, one colour in highlights and another in shadows - subtly of course. Nov 10 12 08:10 pm Link Gels Rock!  Nov 10 12 11:45 pm Link Rosco used to have sample kits with smaller cut sheets. I still use those today, but have lots of full size cut filters and rolls. In my port I have a few examples. Here is one people like.  Nov 10 12 11:55 pm Link Yes, sometimes I use colour gels (mainly red). Here's one recent example.  Nov 11 12 12:21 am Link Red kicker on the right, yellow kicker on the left, blue beautydish with grid as main. Blue and Red mix to Magenta/purple... https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/p … 8#30513308 Nov 11 12 12:34 am Link The Rosco and Lee sample swatch books used to be free. After the advent of the Strobist, people started ordering them to use. Turns out they were just the right size for many Stobist applications. Now they sell the swatch books, as well as Strobist-sized filter sets. I keep 20x24-inch Rosco gels in several colors on hand and cut them down for use. I favor colors like blue, red, gold (which they call straw), lavendar and purple. This is the only photo in my portfolio where I used a gel.  Nov 11 12 01:05 am Link Camerosity wrote: I didn't know they charge for them now. Nov 11 12 09:38 am Link Dec 22 12 06:49 am Link Dec 22 12 06:57 am Link love gels! i think i used Rosco (can't find my swatch book) here  Dec 22 12 07:09 am Link A 3/4 CTO in the cave behind the model, straight flash from a beauty dish in front. M https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/26062149 Dec 22 12 07:12 am Link https://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/1 … b8dc58.jpg 18 These are the cheap Amazon gels. The only problem is that if you use llamaing lights, the gels get burned through. Dec 22 12 07:20 am Link Dec 22 12 09:19 am Link Dec 22 12 09:22 am Link I heart gels:)  Dec 22 12 09:25 am Link |
