On Apr 3, 2014, at 10:28 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/2/2014 9:11 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> As you can tell by many of my recent posts, I’be been having fun >> experimenting with colored gels on strobes for backgrounds in >> portraits. >> >> Currently, I’ve just been using the gels that came with the cheap >> chinese barn doors. I’m thinking about a run to a theater store to >> pick up some sheets of colored gel to get a bit more variety, but I’m >> interested in suggestions for ways of mounting gels, or getting other >> interesting effects when using lights on the background. >> >> Larry >> > > At school we used a low residue masking tape to attach the gels to > whatever holder we were using. With hot-lights & studio strobes having > strong modeling lights you had to make sure the gel didn't get to close > to the light. Taping to the front of the reflector usually worked for that. > > You can make cardboard cut-outs of patterns to use as a scrim & shoot the > gelled strobe through it.
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