On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 5:04 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/3/2014 3:41 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> 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.
They also call the cutout thingy a cucoloris. > You can still get several different sample "swatchbooks" of Roscoe gels > that work with strobes like the Vivitar 285HV. The 285HV has a slot in > the front that holds the gels swatches nicely. Rosco sells a Color Effects kit with about 20-odd gel sheets in it, mainly for stage lighting. They also sell a color compensation kit for shifting colour temp to deal with CT matching or creating effects like night light in the daytime. I have the Color Effects kit and the best thing is the sheets are so large you can cut dozens of flash-sized strips from them. > If you have another strobe that doesn't have that slot built in, there > are several doohickeys you can buy that attach with velcro straps & hold > the gel in place. I used to use the velcro doohickeys -- I have two FXtra kits from Lumiquest -- but lately I just use archival art mounting tape to stick gels to the flashes; reusable, no residue, and lower profile to fit under the white plastic diffuser dome when needed. The Strobist wrote an article on attaching gels to various strobes and modifiers. http://strobist.blogspot.ca/2013/01/how-to-gelling-large-light-sources.html I used two cucoloris' and two gels, red and blue, on two flashes (L & R) on the background behind some tulips to get this effect ... http://500px.com/photo/8268497 -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
