Check out the full post at: http://phlearn.com/gels Change Up Your Lights Its very easy to mess up an image by using a gel too directly and by using too many…
Archives
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
-
Recent Posts
Just in case and to complete the info in this very educational video, CTO
and CTB are not color gels but color correction gels. The different is that
CC gels are used not to color your lights, but to balance the color
temperature between your bulb and your film (or the WB of your digital
camera). This is the reason why they come in 8th, 1/4, 1/2 and full
variety. For color gels, just look at the swash book from any manufacturer
as Roscoe or Lee and check the Theatrical colors in it. These gels come
instead in precise colors without any gradation (excepting for the Storaro
line). Almost any photography rental house carries swash books and they are
free. There are also color compensation gels (Plus Green and Minus Green)
and those are the ones you use for instance, to take the green spike off
the household fluorescent tubes or to ad a green spike to tungsten or
daylight lamps in order to match the household fluorescent.
was hoping for a more informative video, saw your stuff on flickr and don’t
really understand why there’s not more substance to this.. like this would
be really good to learn how to do
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aknacer/8658304307/
I have two or three backgrounds. I need to know how to use gels to change
them to jeweled or pastel tones and shades.
You can do it for free. It’s called photoshop.
so many dumb comments, OMG. If you aren’t competent or a hater don’t waist
time to other people reading your bullshit. The guy is not forcing his
opinion, he is helping and asking question too. Gels aren’t use for
matching color temperature only. Gels are used for all kind of creative
purpose!
Please let me know when you’re doing another vid on something you know
little about so I can waste more my life. Thsnks!!
portugal :D
With your english accent I couldn’t understand the name of the portuguese
guy and I’m portuguese… googling I found out that you mean “Fernão de
Magalhães” but in english you guys say “Ferdinand Magellan”… Ok, I
got…. Anyway, nice tutorial.
To me the prime motivation for using gels is to match the flash’s white
balance with the ambient light.
Hi Aaron, awesome vid, can you please let me know what lightstand/boom
you’re using for the light with the CTO gel? THANKS! 🙂
Thanks for this one. How about the white balance on your portrait ( with
the orange gel)? grtz from the Netherlands.
I was going to post this, but will just reinforce what you said here. We
use gels to balance the ambient light in the room. If you have tungsten
light sources in the room (say at a party, or some other indoor event
you’re shooting) then you need to gel your flash to match. You can see
un-experienced photographers shooting with an ungelled strobe in a room
with incandescent lighting. Guess what? Your flash is color temperature for
daylight. You’re now mixing light temperatures.
His arms are so hairy lol
I was expecting to learn something here…. lol you’re funny but this
turned into a lack of knowledge on how to use them…
why so serious? =D cheer up buddy
great comment. can you answer me this? when i shoot outside at night using
my camera mounted speedlight with a rogue flash bender it looks kinda
crappy without alot of editing which i am trying to get away from. i want
to get it as close as possible in camera so when i edit i can focus more on
other details. so question is what gel could i put on my speedlight to
match the ambience of the street lights with the flash. and then what do i
use for my whitebalane
very poor tutorial, and not funny at all. 🙁
To be honest, I disagree. While what you are saying is right and there
should be some differentiation regarding what gels ascertain to. If you
were searching for “Balancing Strobes with Ambient Light using Gels” you
would find a whole collection of videos regarding what you are looking for.
Technically he is right. Regarding “Gels are mainly used on strobes or
flashes to balance color temp between mixed lighting” , to be honest, I
havent not heard of that nearly as much as for color fun. 🙂
I use gels on my images, you can check out how they turned out. I pretty
much use them 90% of the time. You can check out my images at on my site.
I like your videos, but honestly this is not even close to being a tutorial
on who to use gels. For one thing it focuses mainly on the idea that people
use gels for color effects which while true under certain circumstances
such as background coloring etc. that is not the true use and reason we
have gels. Gels are mainly used on strobes or flashes to balance color temp
between mixed lighting. A room full of tungsten lights with a CTO on a
flash, white balance tungsten will look natural.
I mostly use them to colour white seamless. Works pretty well but you have
to keep the main lights off the background. Canon provided CTO gel and
holder with the 600 EX RT. If you use it, the camera’s white balance is
automatically set. The gel balances with incandescent light really well,
but you lose the warmth of that light because it brings the scene back to
daylight. This action suggests the manufacturers think gel should colour
balance.
Even though it’s dark outside the light spectrum is still considered
daylight balance. If you take a shot at sunset with your camera WB set to
daylight you still get the warm highlights and color from the Sun along
with shadows. The daylight balance doesn’t remove that warm glow. At night
time it’s the same principle. You set your camera to daylight WB (Sunny on
some models) and put a CTO gel on your flash. A 1/2 cut CTO should do and
match if the lights are warm and amber. More white..no gel.