Gel those flashes....

[forkball]

I think this is a pretty good idea. I wish it didn't cost so much though. However, the price gets you a lifetime supply so I guess if they stay in business for a long long time, it could be a worthwhile investment.

http://stickyfi.startlogic.com/index.html

[Sgt.]

These look pretty good. I wonder if anybody has actually bought them.

[_aravena]

From their photos all I saw was proper WB usage or after lightroom adjustments. What am I missing?

[bieber]

From their photos all I saw was proper WB usage or after lightroom adjustments. What am I missing?

If you're using, say, flash for a subject and the background is lit by fluorescents, there is no such thing as "proper white balance." You either balance for the fluorescents and your flash looks really really orange-ish, I believe, or you balance for your flash and the background is a nasty, puky green. If you put a fluorescent green gel on your flash, then there is a proper white balance. Same goes for tungsten, daylight, etc.: they allow you to achieve consistent light color. You can also use it, if you want, to create a deliberate color imbalance for dramatic effect.

In any case, I'll stick to my velcro-laden strips of Rosco samples ;)

[neilcowley]

Roscoes are cheap. I even tape one over my G9 - I dout these have the color consistancy or accuracy of the Roscoe professional line.

Creative blessings
Neil (http://makelightreal.com)

[forkball]

From their photos all I saw was proper WB usage or after lightroom adjustments. What am I missing?

Yeah... there is a little more to it than that. When using flash indoors with standard household lighting as your background lighting, it can produce some pretty ugly results. Your choice is to either use so much flash on your subject, and a fast shutter to kill the ambient light and the room lighting becomes nullified, but that gives you those lovely inky black backgrounds... Or, you can go ahead and drag the shutter to pick up the ambient light for the background, but you end up with that lovely browish/orange background. OR... you can gel the flash to convert the color temp to match the room lighting and get perfectly blended flash, and room lighting. When employed properly, it's something you can't notice in the photo at all.

[ekk_xt]

looks pretty cool since you dont need to velcro it and lifetime replacements but dang 50bux! :lol:

[Curtis N]

Gels can get hot.
I want a small slot for airflow behind mine.

[a521]

I wanted to try some gels because I only have a white backdrop, but I couldn't find anyplace local to look at them. So....I took out the holiday plastic wrap that my wife wrapped our holiday cookies in and put 4 layers in front of my flash and they worked great! I have a whole roll of red and a roll of green wrap to use until I can get to Roberts and check out some real gels.