joe mcnally does this thing from time to time where he'll gel the hell out of his strobes, and set up some kind of crazy situation where half the light will be this super saturated red, and the other half will be a rich dark blue, and in between there's usually someone standing there that is (mostly) color balanced correctly.
and this is something that interests me a lot. i mean, it's difficult to make a flash look like it's a dark color. you're filtering the color of light coming out of a speedlight, so it's not like you can add more to make it richer. if you turn up the flash power, it gets more washed out instead of more saturated.but if you turn the flash power down, now there's less light to bounce around the room and color things.
so it's a bit counter-intuitive. but i eventually worked it to this point, which is decent enough for what i'm trying to do. i plan on exploring this more in the future.... it's mind blowing to me to think that you can walk into a space with just a couple of flashes and some thin colored plastic gels, and create this super-colorful environment for your subject. i think next time i'm going to try double and triple stacking the gels on the flash heads.
setup shot:
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