Hey, this is Scott of PhotographyBanzai.com
Today I want to talk about flash gels. More
specifically these Rogue flash gels. Also called lighting filters, right here. That I
picked up a while back. Come in this nice little pouch...
So first off, the reason I
picked them up are these ones. These are the color correction gels.
Each type of gel group comes with a card.
And it defines what these are.
So we've got...
This one is a frost heavy diffusion gel.
What you do here...
Is that it comes with a rubber band.
Then you got your flash.
Put it on like so...
And then you use the rubber band to lock it on.
Pretty simple installation, so that's it!
You can put multiple gels...
So if you wanted diffusion plus a color, it's pretty easy to do.
So... let's go through some of the other ones first before I do a little test.
Some of the more important ones, as I said, are the color correction.
You've get these color
temperature orange ones. Three different types. These are helpful in situations
with tungsten lighting. So you've got hotels and things like that. You can get
kind of a mixture of different oranges to help you in situations where you've got
the tungsten lights in the background. Your flash will not match that
color of light. So you can use one of these orange ones or two of the orange ones
to get a exposure where your background and foreground are a
similar color temperature. The same thing with these two here...
First off, color temperature blue.
And then also plus green. These help with
different types of light of course. I think this is fluorescent, not sure. The
blue one, I think this is for outside skies to help you mix your flash light to
match the outdoors.
That's a really strong nice vibrant blue sky and all that.
These Rogue filters also come with...
Two different groups of colored filters. These are fun
if you do some off-camera flash. You know you can just add the blue, red, green.. tint
to your photo pretty neat!
So you've got the red. And the orange, blue, and green.
Lots of different ones. There's purple.
There's some orange.
Violet color... red, yellow...
So I'm gonna do a quick test. Take a photo of this backdrop here with some of the
flash... Let's start with this blue one. This is not a color corrector. So you
just slide it on as I did before. It's actually not that easy.
Even with two hands.
You got this... gel... rubber band.
The flash is in slave mode.
Only camera I've got. This will fire it off.
Gonna turn it on...
So I just have this setup to fire off the flash, and this will set this one off.
So you should see a blue tone and it worked perfectly.
I'll put the photos up, you know on the video itself, once I'm done...
So we can also add a different color. Let's see...
Let's take this one and just merge them together.
Now you've got the two right
next to each other. And increase the flash power a little bit.
See what that looks like...
So again, fires off. Still definitely
a blue tone to it.
Slight hint.. maybe of slightly different.
Let's put a lot closer. That's pretty neat.
So.. so, the main sheet has one frost diffusion.
I'm just going to hold this up to it without using the rubber band.
A lot easier.
And I'll try to take a photo of each, with and without.
I actually had the diffusion thing down on here.
So let's.. one more.
One more time with...
This guy!
Not exactly scientific, but they're pretty fun to try out. They're not too expensive.
As you can see I used something pretty simple. This doesn't
work outdoors, but it works indoors to trigger something like this off.
This is a Yongnuo YN460-II flash unit.
So these are pretty fun to try out, thanks!