W.T.F.? – a studie in gels
www.flashgels.co.uk
I played around with my new gels from flashgel.co.uk the other day…
Came up with the idea while driving home from work.
The setup is pretty simple, its a Canon 430EX II flash attached with Cactus V4 trigger and about ½ a CTO gel to compensate for the tungstenlamps in the room.
I set the camera’s whitebalance setting to “tungsten” and fooled around with it some more in Lightroom (cropping, vignetting).
Place the flash and trigger in the box and your’e almost good to go.
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After trying this a few times I noticed that I got a lot of spill out on to the chest of the model on the picture on the left, so I added a homemade “snoot” to direct the light towards the face.
My snoot wasn’t as fancy as the one I’m linking to, mine was just a piece of white A4 paper wrapped around the head of the flash with stickytape.
The right hand photo was made in almost the same way. I just put a flash with 1/2 CTO gel in the lap of the model behind the book to get it to illuminate the face of the screaming model.
Both images where exposed according to the background remembering the fact that when you use flash, it’s actually two exposures in one image.
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