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transcend
2nd of February 2007 (Fri), 22:26
been playing with gels on a new mid gray BG. This thing eats up the color, it's great.

http://www.transcendmagazine.com/random_pics/gels/_T2A5451gels.jpg

http://www.transcendmagazine.com/random_pics/gels/_T2A5481gels.jpg

http://www.transcendmagazine.com/random_pics/gels/_T2A5583gels.jpg
akhoopes
2nd of February 2007 (Fri), 22:29
awesome what do you do to avaid the spill over on to your subject
transcend
2nd of February 2007 (Fri), 22:32
Simple, have them between the BG light and the camera, and flag off the BG light. (You can see the cardboard flag blocking the BG light in the last shot.
cskn0125
2nd of February 2007 (Fri), 22:41
Thats awesome! Wonderful pictures.

edit: Just wondering... how tall is your roof?
transcend
2nd of February 2007 (Fri), 22:45
Thats awesome! Wonderful pictures.

edit: Just wondering... how tall is your roof?

Thanks, they are high, over 10'. It's a 100 year old house (you can sort of see the remnants of the original coal furnace chimney to the left in the last photo.
akhoopes
2nd of February 2007 (Fri), 22:47
got it what are you using for that flag
transcend
2nd of February 2007 (Fri), 22:50
got it what are you using for that flag

In this case, it is the box from a drum skin clamped to a tripod head. Black purpose built framed fabric scrims work well too.
StroupePhotography
3rd of February 2007 (Sat), 03:38
I have got to get me 2 more strobes and try this with gels. Thanks for showing your setup also.
LCF
3rd of February 2007 (Sat), 04:20
very cool!
JHH Photgraphy
3rd of February 2007 (Sat), 06:12
I like what you did here, I am going to have to try this
queenbee288
3rd of February 2007 (Sat), 06:14
They look terrific!
amonline
3rd of February 2007 (Sat), 11:58
Great colors... which gels are you using?
kenwood33
3rd of February 2007 (Sat), 12:01
Good idea, now you will only need one background and a set of gel to change background color.
transcend
3rd of February 2007 (Sat), 12:04
Great colors... which gels are you using?

It's a few sets of bogen gels. I believe these were the vivid and pastel series. The gels I have had around, the background is new. It picks up color much better than the whites I have used in the past.
zeddy
3rd of February 2007 (Sat), 12:16
Nice bit of kit there :)
jmanser
3rd of February 2007 (Sat), 12:37
Very Cool! I really like the colors. Not to be picky, but on my monitor it looks like there is an area above his right shoulder (on the red pic bg) that maybe didn't get burned all the way? I can see some smudge marks :)
Very nice shots.. I'd like to see some more in different colors!
transcend
3rd of February 2007 (Sat), 12:48
Very Cool! I really like the colors. Not to be picky, but on my monitor it looks like there is an area above his right shoulder (on the red pic bg) that maybe didn't get burned all the way? I can see some smudge marks :)
Very nice shots.. I'd like to see some more in different colors!

everything you see is natural light fall off. The BG realy needs to be lit from both sides to get a nice clean background. As you can see form the last shot, I only lit it from one side. I actually reshot it later with a 20deg grid on the gelled BG light and it worked great, only i lost about 5 stosp of light, so i needed to open up and shoot much lower than F11 which meant futzing with everything and I wasn't really in the mood.