![]() ![]() In the second part I followed up with how to filter Coast HP7R and HP5R flashlights to provide a neutral color when the white balance is set to 3200 K. This all revolved shooting at Daylight white balance. In the first part I talked about the pros and cons of LED flashlights, color theory, white balance, testing your flashlight’s color and how to fashion your own custom filters. If you’d like to learn more about these Rosco products, feel free to contact me directly.In 2017 I wrote a two-part blog post titled “Level Up With Light Painting: Correcting the Color of Your Flashlight,” which discussed the color biases of flashlights and how to filter them to neutralize that color when shooting at different white balance settings. One final note – have you seen the Rosco Strobist Collection gel kit made for speed light flash units? This gel kit does include the Roscolux 26 that you talked about in your post. The movie had a bunch of shoots on soccer fields and they wanted to make the grass look greener. These colors were used, using the same technique you explained, when shooting the movie ‘Kicking and Screaming’ starring Will Ferrell. To make your greens pop, I would recommend using either CalColor 15 Magenta #4715 or CalColor 30 Magenta #4730. They are a patented system of gels consisting of primary & secondary colors calibrated for camera in different densities. Special thanks to B for playing along!įiled Under: Flashes, Strobes & Lighting Tagged With: complimentary colors, gel, green, lighting diagram, lighting setup, nikon, Nikon SJ-1 Gel, proof of concept, red, rosco, sb600, strobeĪdmittedly, I’m a lighting nerd – but isn’t color theory fun?! □įirst of all – would you mind sharing these fantastic photos from your study in our Flickr Photo that you’re immersing yourself into color theory and complimentary colors, you should look into our Academy Award Winning CalColor system. Heck yea – the umbrella spread the red nicely as we can see in the middle shot and really bumped up the green int he background while filling in some shadows the first shot that didn’t have flash missed out on. ![]() Outdoor Portrait using a Red Gel on Subject Results Outdoor Portrait using a Red Gel on Subject Setup I chose a flat light setup to make sure I was evenly distributing the red color cast. and moved the umbrella directly over the camera about 2′ away from the subject and 1.5′ above the camera. This time I put a white shoot through umbrella in front of the gelled flash. I agreed he could keep the white balance card in front of his face since I was just using him for his skin tone. In comes B my roommate / landlord / best friend. ![]() I had gotten this far I just needed to prove this on a portrait. It needs some refinement but it’s almost there! I used the ‘red’ gel from my Nikon SJ-1 Color Filter Set equivalent to the Rosco Roscolux #26 Light Red available in the $1.95 Rosco Gel Sample Pack at B&H. My results came out really well – I was super pleased with what I saw! Toy – Strobe Red Gel to Boost Green Outdoor Background Results Toy – Strobe Red Gel to Boost Green Outdoor Background Setup These test shots were taken using a SB600 strobe, camera left about 2′ above and 1 ‘ in front of the subject. So I grabbed a kid’s toy, for it’s bold colors and headed outside. To learn more about complimentary colors check out the wikipedia entry on complimentary colors. If that is the case – flip your thinking around and don’t use a gel to match your subject’s white balance to the background – bring out a color in the background by casting it’s compliment onto your subject! I wanted to bring out the spring green in the trees by using a red (green’s compliment) color cast on my subject. The thought behind this is: If we use a orange gel over a flash or strobe to add orange to a light on the subject to balance out the orange sun light on the background what we are also doing is using orange on our subject to add blue (orange’s compliment) to the background. I did a quick proof of concept test with my gels and SB600 today – it was pretty cool. ![]()
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