![]() ![]() Whenever I am using colored gels on my rim light strobes, I make sure I shoot against a darker background, otherwise the rim lights will be washed out and barely noticeable in the shot.I can also use a colored gift wrapping paper or colored cellophane and cover the entire front of the beauty dish to create colorful main light for specific creative projects ( see examples below, 2 images of Tori and Chelsea).It will create an even more directional fill light that I can use to color just some of the shadows in a portrait I may also mount a color gel onto a strobe with a gridded hood reflector and fire it into a collapsible silver reflector to bounce it back onto the subject. ![]() I may stick a color gel to the housing of a softbox on the inside to create a larger and more directional fill light ( see example below, the Jewelry Ad lighting setup).I may mount a blue color gel on a strobe and fire into a wall or into the ceiling or the floor to make she shadows in the scene appear slightly cooler.So besides mounting colored gels on my rim light strobes, there are a few more ways that I use them: I typically shoot with the same strobe models, so I rarely need to correct the color of my lights, but I do love shooting with theatrical colored gels and my work created in the past 6 years really shows it. There are two main types of colored gels – theatrical, that we use to add a splash of accent colors into the frame, and color correcting – those that help us change the color temperature of a light source and are a whole separate topic, which we will leave for another time. In this article I’d like to walk you through some of the basics of working with colored gels when shooting Beauty in a studio and also share a video lesson from our Go Pro: Studio Beauty video course, where I talk about color gels as well (at the end of this article). I am a big fan of using colored gels for rim lights in my work, but there’s really so much more that you can do with them besides that. ![]()
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