today i wanted to make up a super colorful background using gels. create like a weird pattern of colored light on the background, but still keep the subject in the correct color range.
so i made this:
it's a box that my justin clamp came in. it's long and about the right size. so i cut a hole in both ends, and stuck a flash in one end, and a bunch of gels onto the other end. at first i tried to get some kind of color pattern going, maybe a warm to cool color transition, but in the end i was just taping on more gels any way i could.
the toughest part was balancing the amount of light for the background with the amount of light on the subject..... turn up the softbox too much, and it starts to blow the background white. too little and the subject is just a silhouette. i wanted more color in the background, but there was a intensity of color i wasn't able to achieve. i wound up using my colorsplash flash low camera left to push some blues up into the background.
i think i still need to work on this type of color-gel management. i pushed up the colors in lightroom a bit for the final image, but i'm still not all that happy with it.
setup shot:
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