JSchro Photo wrote:
PEOPLE...you're arguing with people who know the facts, just want to have a little fun and play dumb....so why argue with that?  I've got a brick wall you can bang your head against if you'd like.

You may be right, I may be crazy, but I just may be the fool that you are looking for!

JSchro Photo wrote:
PEOPLE...you're arguing with people who know the facts, just want to have a little fun and play dumb....so why argue with that?  I've got a brick wall you can bang your head against if you'd like.

I know not what you mean.  We are learning things here.

JSchro Photo wrote:
PEOPLE...you're arguing with people who know the facts, just want to have a little fun and play dumb....so why argue with that?  I've got a brick wall you can bang your head against if you'd like.

We do know the facts and they ain't fooling us!

Chris Keeling wrote:
That's really cool!  I only have 4 lights and a gray background.  Mine never comes out those pretty colors though.  I need to get me some gels. 

Gels are your friend!

RSF Photography wrote:
We do know the facts and they ain't fooling us!

Do you seriously believe that this is a photoshop trick?

ei Total Productions wrote:

The ghosting is a shadow with an offset soft box.  In addition to using highlight colors, I also used a general background light so you are shadowing over a modified form of illumination.

I do these effects at all of my Nor. Cal. workshops.  Unfortunately, I don't do them down in L.A.  The events are too big and it is just impractical.

Is it because gels are subdueing the background light to the point that the Main Light is stronger than the background light?  And that's causing the shadow that looks like that neat ghosting effect?

Chris Keeling wrote:

Is it because gels are subdueing the background light to the point that the Main Light is stronger than the background light?  And that's causing the shadow that looks like that neat ghosting effect?

Looks more like Photshop artifact.  Right, Rico?

Black Ricco wrote:
Do you seriously believe that this is a photoshop trick?

I think it's the black ghosting Chris mentioned that has us suspicious.

Check out this link:  http://groupphotoshoots.com/share/bravo6/index.htm

I can give you as many of those that you want.  That is how I show proofs to models after a test.

Golly gosh, I just have a lot of free time on my hands to photoshop every image identically within an hour or two of a photoshoot.

Get over it, the gel techniques are real.

ei Total Productions wrote:
I will say this though, it is more than just putting a gel on a strobe.  It is also about controlling and understanding the relative intensities of all the lights to get the effect you are looking for.  A lot of it is counter-intuitive.

I have been shooting for almost forty years.  I think I can figure out how to light things properly.

Or use Photoshop very well!

Black Ricco wrote:
Gel toothpaste?  Hmmm, have to try that.

But do you put the toothpaste on your light or on your lens?

Even Ricco knows how to laugh

RSF Photography wrote:
Or use Photoshop very well!

Whatever, this is getting old.

Black Ricco wrote:
Gel toothpaste?  Hmmm, have to try that.

But do you put the toothpaste on your light or on your lens?

Not sure.  I thought they were talking about colored Jello.  I can see how the toothpaste would be easier to work with.

Black Ricco wrote:
PEOPLE...you're arguing with people who know the facts, just want to have a little fun and play dumb...

??? I'm trying to learn something here. I'd appreciate it if you'd check your attitude at the door, thank you.

Yeah right.  In a PM I just got

Black Ricco wrote:
Subject: Thread went to shit....
Black Ricco
08/07/08 2:14 AM   
It's called a sense of humor.

Here's $20 go but yourself one.

Wow, I mean wow.

JSchro Photo wrote:
Putting the toothpaste on the rear element of you lens works best I found.  That way the messy parts are out of sight and not easily smudged up. Easier to keep a consistent background if you're doing a series.

Finally!  Now I'm getting something out of this thread.

JMX Photography wrote:

Black Ricco wrote:
PEOPLE...you're arguing with people who know the facts, just want to have a little fun and play dumb...

??? I'm trying to learn something here. I'd appreciate it if you'd check your attitude at the door, thank you.

Yeah right.  In a PM I just got

Wow, I mean wow.

They're called PM's for a reason, dude!

RSF Photography wrote:
However in the case of poloraized light perpendicular to the plane of incidence, the intensity of the reflected light diminishes from a perpendicular incidence, up to the anlge of maximum polarization, and afterwards increases.

Can I get an amen?

Black Ricco wrote:
Gel toothpaste?  Hmmm, have to try that.

But do you put the toothpaste on your light or on your lens?

In the CD tray ... so that Photoshop can use it. 

Black Ricco wrote:

They're called PM's for a reason, dude!

He blocked me! Polly afraid I was gonna shake him down for his lunch money.

Too funny.

Black Ricco wrote:

Can I get an amen?

Just my two cents.  But what do I know.  Still looks like Photoshp.

Doug Curran Photography wrote:

In the CD tray ... so that Photoshop can use it. 

Eeeew, what a mess that would be, but hey, whatever works.

Black Ricco wrote:
He blocked me! Polly afraid I was gonna shake him down for his lunch money.

Too funny.

Nope, after being on MM since 2005, you're the first person I thought I'd be better off not ever directly hearing from again.  Congrats!  So far I'm not regretting it.

Baos_ca wrote:
Ok, so now I put some blue gel on my grey muslin, how do you wash it off? that bathroom stuff is sticky as hell..









oooookkkk... I m kidding ... but the light tone this thread took got me going...

Light tones, light toning?  Is that what it's called?

Black Ricco wrote:
What you did was wrong, dude. You know it, I know it, and everyone else who saw it knows it.

Sleep well.

Sorry if your behavior embarasses you, but that's hardly my fault.