Adding colored gels to your next portrait shoot is a simple way to create photos with immediate impact. From vibrant splashes of color to subtle pastel tones, gels on flashes can create a wide variety of stunning effects that we don’t see with our own eyes. Before you get started with gels there are some key points to get right and that’s where photographer Gavin Hoey comes in. In this video, he coves the essential tips and tricks for getting the best results from your gels. Gavin starts with the basics such as how to correctly cover a flash with a gel and how to set up your camera for colored gel photography. There are many, many ways to use gels in a studio photoshoot and Gavin covers two of the most popular here. First, he turns a plain grey background into a wall of vibrant red. Next, he steps it up to a more advanced lighting technique by using two different colors of gel to light his model and create some amazing and colorful ¾ length portraits. Timestamps and Chapters 0:
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