How do you store your gels?

I keep my gels in a ziplock bag in my camera bag, but I'd like something a little more organized. Anyone have any good storage tips?

I use 600 EX-RT which come with a neat little gel holder, and a little wallet to hold the gels
I made a template i can hold on a sheet of gel and quickly cut around with a sharp knife, so i have made a whole bunch of different gels.

I have two of the supplied wallet/sleeve things, so one has colour correction, the other has colour effect gels.

In the sleeves i have Full CTO, other CTO, blue, and other (plusgreen and urban vapour)

I keep mine in a cabinet with the other old film stuff. I'm not trying to be a wise guy, I just don't see any need for them anymore.

rgs wrote in post #16442185
I keep mine in a cabinet with the other old film stuff. I'm not trying to be a wise guy, I just don't see any need for them anymore.

I use mine at least once a week !

Not trying to be a smart ass either, but I use a CTO a lot, typically to balance my flash with Tungsten light inside a house.
Or a 1/2 CTO to put a flick of "late afternoon sun" into a face.

Sure it can be done in Photoshop, but I would rather spend 30 seconds changin WB and sticking a Gel on, than 30 mins in photoshop messing with layers.

The honl gels come in thick ziplock bags. Mine sit in those.

I picked up a small accordion-style holder from Walmart for a few dollars. It's roughly 4"x6" size, with multiple dividers to help me keep my gels organized.

EDIT: Fairly similar to this: http://www.lionop.com …oductimages/b/9​4800AS.jpg

Echo63 wrote in post #16442208
I use mine at least once a week !

Not trying to be a smart ass either, but I use a CTO a lot, typically to balance my flash with Tungsten light inside a house.
Or a 1/2 CTO to put a flick of "late afternoon sun" into a face.

Sure it can be done in Photoshop, but I would rather spend 30 seconds changin WB and sticking a Gel on, than 30 mins in photoshop messing with layers.

Good point however I would (if possible) filter the flash to balance light.

If you shoot in raw it doesn't take hours in PS. Use LR. Just apply a profile on import. Same result as using a WB for JPEGS except no additional filter to (possibly) lower IQ.

I went through years of filtering and special effects in camera. I've been told I was quite good at it. I am grateful to be able to do all of that digitally now. CPL and ND is all I need for the camera and maybe a filter or two for a flash. I'll shut up now. I don't mean to hijack this thread.

I'd like to know how to 'easily' fix mixed lighting in LR... let's say florescent (or tungsten) ambient lighting with a balanced amount of flash used for fill.

I use gels specifically so I don't have to spend the time trying (because I can't) to fix this in post.

drvnbysound wrote in post #16442660
I'd like to know how to 'easily' fix mixed lighting in LR... let's say florescent (or tungsten) ambient lighting with a balanced amount of flash used for fill.

I use gels specifically so I don't have to spend the time trying (because I can't) to fix this in post.

Gel the flash. It takes a smaller gel, loses the same amount of light, and the optical condition of the gel is unimportant so protecting them is less of a problem.

rgs wrote in post #16443050
Gel the flash. It takes a smaller gel, loses the same amount of light, and the optical condition of the gel is unimportant so protecting them is less of a problem.

Sorry, I think there may have been some confusion on my part... I misread what you previously wrote and thought you were stating not to bother with gels if you shoot RAW and that it's a quick fix in Ps (or Lr) to correct.

I definitely understand the value of gels, I have and use them regularly with OCF.

drvnbysound wrote in post #16443351
Sorry, I think there may have been some confusion on my part... I misread what you previously wrote and thought you were stating not to bother with gels if you shoot RAW and that it's a quick fix in Ps (or Lr) to correct.

I definitely understand the value of gels, I have and use them regularly with OCF.

I wasn't thinking of a gel on a flash when I said that. The LR fix is for white balance, not mixed lighting. Sorry for the confusion.

rgs wrote in post #16443491
I wasn't thinking of a gel on a flash when I said that. The LR fix is for white balance, not mixed lighting. Sorry for the confusion.

No worries... yeah, I read this post you made:

rgs wrote in post #16442638
Good point however I would (if possible) filter the flash to balance light.

If you shoot in raw it doesn't take hours in PS. Use LR. Just apply a profile on import. Same result as using a WB for JPEGS except no additional filter to (possibly) lower IQ.

I went through years of filtering and special effects in camera. I've been told I was quite good at it. I am grateful to be able to do all of that digitally now. CPL and ND is all I need for the camera and maybe a filter or two for a flash. I'll shut up now. I don't mean to hijack this thread.

To which you quoted (and were responding to):

Echo63 wrote in post #16442208
I use mine at least once a week !

Not trying to be a smart ass either, but I use a CTO a lot, typically to balance my flash with Tungsten light inside a house.
Or a 1/2 CTO to put a flick of "late afternoon sun" into a face.

Sure it can be done in Photoshop, but I would rather spend 30 seconds changin WB and sticking a Gel on, than 30 mins in photoshop messing with layers.

Since the discussion was really about gels, and Echo63 mentioned that he uses gels to balance the flash with tungsten light... then you responded saying, shoot in RAW and that you do it digitally. I thought you knew something that I didn't

Laminated and carabiner....

SYS wrote in post #16444059
Laminated and carabiner....

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Now that's cool. But how do you attach them to your flash?

ziplock bag for me but a nice little tin can like the one that comes with the lee big stopper would be cool