Gels
Posted by Colin | Filed under shoot
I’ve been wanting to play with gels for a while. I’m impatient and don’t want to have to wait for a gel order to come in so I went about finding a quick solution. My first idea was a winner…. I went to the nearest Music store/DJ equipment store and got a pack of four 12″x12″ gels for less than $5.00. They are meant for Disco lights (for lack of a better term) and are green, red, blue and yellow. One 12×12 sheet was more than enough to cut into one large gel for my White Lightning X1600’s and two smaller ones for a pair of speedlights. They work great and deliver the intended results.
Then things went a bit downhill. My “omg I just outsmarted Rosco (the main gel manufacturer)” vibe was ‘harshed’. I wanted orange and a purple/pink. They don’t sell those in nice small packs so now I had to buy full sheets (about 18″x24″) and these were $7 a pop, $14 total. Not so cheap, but they work and my impatient appetite is fed.
Here is a shot with the pink gel on camera right:
February 10th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Very fun! I’m sure you’ll come up with lots of fun ways to use the new gels.
March 10th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Vey cool, there a link to the item on their website?
March 11th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Sorry… a link to the Gels on the gel manufacturers site?
If you’re going the strobist route then I’ll sell you my leftovers (plenty for a few speedlights) for pretty cheap.