How Do You Read a Gel Swatch Book
I, along with every other photog-blogger in the blogosphere, has read about using the Rosco Roscolux Swatchbook available costless from Rosco (beware I've heard at that place's a major wait through Rosco) and for $0.01 at present $1.95 from B&H to color a background using a flash unit.
Well it's hard to get a concord of the Roscolux Swatchbook. I've seen it sell out on the B&H website in as little as 24 minutes before. Though B&H also has the Rosco Cinegel Swatchbook for the aforementioned price, and it was in stock, so I ordered it and got yesterday.
The first thing I did was remove the straight pivot belongings the samples together and replaced it with a clip I had previously used for embroidery floss. This allows me to remove gels easily while not making a mess of the whole situation.
Accompanying Photographs
You tin option up a loop like that at any craft shop like Joann'southward most the embroidery or notions storage section.
I haven't had a chance to play with any lighting with the gels yet. You lot know…work…slumber. But I'yard excited to requite it a try tonight or tomorrow.
I learned virtually these gel sample packs by reading a post on the Photography on the.net forums, using gels to create colored backgrounds. I was immediately inspired, especially by the photos posted to that thread by curtis N, agent.media and flg8r.
That was when the Internet twisted my own arm into buying the background and stand I did the video about last week.
While waiting for my delivery I looked and found some other good posts on forums most using gel samples. This mail started as a question regarding the effectiveness of a colored groundwork and saturation of the color by the gel, and includes a sample photo. Some other post about using gels shows sample photographs using models and still life and also shows demonstrations where you can make full the groundwork with the color, or hot spot the color, even a demo that appears to snoot with a color.
I also stumbled across some other post where the demo was using the gel against a white wall. Though ane response pointed out that using the gel on white has a tendency to reflect back onto the field of study which can cause highlights in the hair to become the colour of the gel. Non always a desired issue. I'k quite glad I went with the dark grayness background now!
I'll probably be working on a holder tonight, I've been exploding a few options:
- Plastic Sleeve and Velcro – photo ii – Not a large fan of the idea of putting Velcro on my flash
- Plastic name tag – Like to the above plastic sleeve and Velcro, seems promising
- Mat Board and Clip – I'd probably use a magnet instead of a clip, and I'd use black mat lath
- Plastic as Clips – Appears to work well but I would rather separate the gel from the pinnacle of the wink in fearfulness of oestrus transfer and melting
- Mat Lath and Snaps for Swivel Action – Is a swivel necessary? Not for me. Glad to encounter magnets work well though
- Plastic Strips and Velcro – Over again I'thousand not sure nigh the gel flush against the wink
As y'all can tell I'chiliad kind-of being a big wussie about not melting my gel to my flash only fifty-fifty if is unlikely to happen I'd all the same rather use preventative measures.
I'll post upwardly my terminal solution I settle with. My guess is it will be a lot like the mat board with prune, except with magnets since they're way easier to change rapidly and if they're attached I can't lose them!
Researching these holders was a big aid and pb me to request sample packets from a few other companies such every bit Lee and Apollo Design Technologies. We'll run into how long it takes for those sample packs to come in.
Update: Lee Gels vs. Rosco Gel Swatchbooks
The Lee Gel sample pack came almost days after. And I adopt using the Lee gels because they use larger samples which encompass the flash (or my gel adapter) nicer. I managed to go my hands on a couple of the Rosco Roscolux Swatchbook and I see why they are recommended, that book has a wider variety of colors and focuses mainly on gels. Mayhap I'll do a full review of the different swatch books one time I get the last 1 I ordered.
Source: https://learnmorephoto.com/flashes-speedlights-strobes-lighting/rosco-gel-samples/
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