jamiewexler
1st of June 2007 (Fri), 11:11
Last week I went on a little shopping spree at Adorama and cleared a few small things off of my wish list. $300 later...:lol:
Anyway, one of the things I have been wanting to experiment with was gelling my flash in tungsten lit rooms to more closely match the color temp of my flash to the color temp of the room and avoid the orange bacgrounds that result from the flash having a different color temp than the flash.
Since the flash outputs light at the same color as the sun (or thereabout), and tungsten bulbs at a much warmer temperature, the only way to match to two is to make the flash the same color as the bulbs.
So I bought a big sheet of CTO gel from Adorama, and cut it into strips small enough to tape to the front of the flash head. I added the gel, then set the WB to the tungsten setting.
This was my result (both jpeg straight out of the camera):
http://www.jamisonwexler.com/images/Patti&Chris1302.jpg
The color from the flash now neutralized the color cast of the tungsten lights...but is is better?
Not sure that I really like it. To cold and sterile, and the light on the bride is not as warm, and slightly red. It also eats up flash power like nobody's business.
I ended up adding back a bit of warmth in PS to come upt with this:
http://i.pbase.com/o6/30/516430/1/79672335.WVn4iRFO.PattyChrisP17.jpg
I just wanted to share an experiment that didn't go totally as planned...rather than just posting my best stuff all of the time. I still plan to work with more gels, I might just try a 1/2 CTO to lessen the yellow background without completely sterilizing it...
Anyway, one of the things I have been wanting to experiment with was gelling my flash in tungsten lit rooms to more closely match the color temp of my flash to the color temp of the room and avoid the orange bacgrounds that result from the flash having a different color temp than the flash.
Since the flash outputs light at the same color as the sun (or thereabout), and tungsten bulbs at a much warmer temperature, the only way to match to two is to make the flash the same color as the bulbs.
So I bought a big sheet of CTO gel from Adorama, and cut it into strips small enough to tape to the front of the flash head. I added the gel, then set the WB to the tungsten setting.
This was my result (both jpeg straight out of the camera):
http://www.jamisonwexler.com/images/Patti&Chris1302.jpg
The color from the flash now neutralized the color cast of the tungsten lights...but is is better?
Not sure that I really like it. To cold and sterile, and the light on the bride is not as warm, and slightly red. It also eats up flash power like nobody's business.
I ended up adding back a bit of warmth in PS to come upt with this:
http://i.pbase.com/o6/30/516430/1/79672335.WVn4iRFO.PattyChrisP17.jpg
I just wanted to share an experiment that didn't go totally as planned...rather than just posting my best stuff all of the time. I still plan to work with more gels, I might just try a 1/2 CTO to lessen the yellow background without completely sterilizing it...