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Gelling your flash for effect – Blue background

December 4, 2011 Neil vN 18 Comments

Gelling your flash for effect – Blue background

Gelling your flash for effect - Blue background

The idea of gelling your flash for effect has been a topic here a few times. I most often use gels on my flash to correct my flash when working with tungsten / incandescent light. There are times though when I gel my flash just for effect, creating a shift between my foreground (lit by gelled flash) and my background. In the examples shown in the several articles here, there wasn't the type of background where the effect can clearly be seen on easily recognizable "neutral" background. In the article turning day into night, we turned  Read more inside...

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