![]() ![]() Blue, teal and red are some colors that can look really good and intense when used as gel on the main light. Feel totally free to experiment and even go as far as having all your lights being gelled, including the main light. You’re not limited to using gelled lights only on the background or as a colored rim light. Color harmonies look good to our eyes, so a trained intuition will instinctively go for colors that go well together. Above all though, let your imagination run wild and trust your intuition.You can use multiple gels one on top of the other to create your own colors.You don’t have to stick to only complementary colors though, and you can use a tool like Adobe Color to get analogous or triadic color combinations. Blue and orange are a really popular combination, for example. One way to select colors that go well together is to select 2 complimentary colors.Color CombinationsĪ few tips when it comes to selecting the right colors: Whenever you’re not getting the colors you’re expecting, double-check that you don’t have white light flooding that part of the image either directly or from being reflected on a white wall. The gelled light can then be angled in the direction of the shadow area and the color will show up beautifully. So if you have a non-gelled main light, you’ll want to place it in a way so that it doesn’t light the parts that you want the color to show up. One thing to keep in mind is that the color from lights that have been gelled will show up mostly in shadow areas of a photo. Many gels kits will indicate the amount of light that they block in stops. Just keep in mind that gels eat up some light, so for a similar exposure to a non-gelled light, you’ll want to increase your strobe’s power output. Your best bet, in my opinion, is to just test it out until you get the color you want. Different subjects will also absorb more or less of the color depending on things like wardrobe and the color of their skin. If you want a highly saturated color, lower the power output of the strobe, and if you want a more subtle and bright color, increase the output. So that means that there’s no universal correct power output when it comes to color gel photography, because it depends on the exact value of the color you’re going for. The main reason being that the power output from the light will control the saturation of the color, not just the exposure. The white diffusion material of the modifier won’t cancel-out the color from the gel.įor creative color gel photography, a light meter won’t be really useful like it would be for white light. For larger modifiers like softboxes and octoboxes, just stick the gel inside on the strobe.If you’re using a strobe on a high power setting, you may want to create a kind of cone with the gel so that it doesn’t touch the strobe directly, in which case the heat could start melting it. ![]() Spilled white light can easily cancel out the effect of the color gel.
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