Comments on: Fstoppers Lighting Diagram- Using Gels to Enhance Sunsets

By: amanduca

amanduca — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:56:00 +0000

what he said.

By: Louis Rafael Rosenthal

Louis Rafael Rosenthal — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:30:00 +0000

really like the first shot!

By: Matthew Lord

Matthew Lord — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:09:00 +0000

I shot this “Portrait of a Chemist” using a couple of 1/8 CTB gels (one behind the model & one to camera right).

The reason why they appear soooo very blue in the shot is because the colour & intensity of light from the flask varied quite a lot during the 20 seconds of the reaction & I had to start off with a “best guess” WB then adjust later in LR. It was only because the chemist knew *exactly* what the colour of the light in the flask should be that I was able to match it & also compliment it with the right coloured gels.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=369474139766291&set=a.369474103099628.79444.363705150343190&type=3&theater

By: kenyee

kenyee — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:27:00 +0000

That magenta sky doesn’t look like most sunsets I’ve seen…just wayyyy too purple…

By: Rachel Edgington

Rachel Edgington — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:54:00 +0000

@facebook-1491861002:disqus ove that shot

By: Alex Leon

Alex Leon — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:42:00 +0000

Gelled 1 full cto and a 1/4 cto on main light, and set WB to tungsten, that gave me blue light from windows and blue light from a bare strobe behind subject. This was part of my experiment if I could replicate Joe Mcnally’s bar shoot.

By: Jesse Longmire

Jesse Longmire — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:16:00 +0000

The White Balance on the 3rd pic is terrible. I would assume one would have to be careful using gelled speedlights around a bright white dress. The 1st one is really good though.

By: Ricardo Consonni

Ricardo Consonni — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:55:00 +0000

OK, I’m no pro, but the 2nd picture (with the couple holding hands) is terrible! The center of the picture is bright, but the corners are very dark (something like a falloff) – if that was the intention, then it’s plain cheesy. The 3rd picture’s WB is also way off: the wedding dress is green!?!

By: Lukas Gisbert-Mora

Lukas Gisbert-Mora — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:49:00 +0000

A bit over the top when it comes to color in those examples, I can see this working well with very light colored gel so you still keep the real sunset colors.
Lukas
http://www.lukasgisbert-photographie.com/

By: Michael Turcotte

Michael Turcotte — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:07:00 +0000

Also under exposing the ambient by 2 stops pushes up the saturation. Somebody wanted the sepia colored background instead of magenta or blue. Using an 85B filters on the camera with a 10,000K WB,a “Full Blue” or CTB gel on the flash, and 2 stops under on the ambient gave a nice starting point. Test shots were a white post , cars, and crappy gray skies.

Joe McNally has a sunset he did with a 40 CC FL-D filter on the camera and a Window Green on the flash.