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The warm light from the nearly-setting sun, accentuated with gelled flash. Towards the end of the\u00a0recent\u00a0photography workshop<\/a>, we were shooting on the rooftop – the warm tone of the sunlight contrasting beautifully with the blue sky.<\/p>\n To punch it even more, we added gelled flash via an off-camera speedlight in a softbox. We had to gel the speedlight of course, to make sure the blue color balance of the flash didn’t kill the natural light. We used a 1\/2 CTS gel here which brought the flash’s WB down to around 3700K. (This photo of our model, Melanie, was taken\u00a0by Rosario.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Working in the shadow side of this structure, the only light on Anelisa is from the (gelled) off-camera flash. The blue sky was enhanced a bit in editing the RAW file.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For a punchier image, I pulled the Blacks down a bit, and nudged the Contrast up.<\/p>\n The blue sky, which is already enhanced because of the warm color from the flash, was then made more intense with adjustments to the Blue tones in the HSL tab. I pulled up the Saturation for Blue, and then pulled the Luminance down a touch. This didn’t affect anything other than the blue sky, since nothing else in the frame had blue colors.<\/p>\n In the final image above, I also used the\u00a0local adjustments<\/a>\u00a0to to selectively pull down the exposure around the edges of the frame. This created a more vignetted effect to the side of the building.<\/p>\n Here is the SOOC test shot as comparison:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The soft boxes used here was the\u00a0Profoto 1.3′ x 2′ softbox<\/a>\u00a0(affiliate<\/em>), which I specifically got for the workshops –\u00a0gear updated: flash photography workshops<\/a>. The softbox was mounded on a\u00a0Profoto RFi Speedrings for dual\u00a0speedlights<\/a>\u00a0(affiliate<\/em>),\u00a0to enable two speed lights in a single softbox.\u00a0But any of the soft boxes listed below would’ve worked just as well.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gelling your flash, and\u00a0post-processing for deep blue skies The warm light from the nearly-setting sun, accentuated with gelled flash. Towards the end of the\u00a0recent\u00a0photography workshop, we were shooting on the rooftop – the warm tone of the sunlight contrasting beautifully with the blue sky. To punch it even more, we added gelled flash via an Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,706,110],"tags":[237,880],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-flash-photography","8":"category-melanie-s","9":"category-off-camera-flash","10":"tag-gelling-your-flash","11":"tag-off-camera-flash","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34651,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22765\/revisions\/34651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22765"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/anelisa\/NV1_6515.jpg\")
<\/p>\nGelling flash & post-processing for deep blue skies<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nGelling your flash<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nOff-camera flash gear used (and equivalents)<\/h2>\n