Creative Flash Photography

Workshop 3

Gobo Projections Using Flash

▸ Build your own gobo projector

▸ How to create projected backgrounds in the studio

Stores sometimes use gobos to project advertisements onto flat surfaces. A gobo projector works like a slide projector, but instead of projecting a photographic slide a gobo uses a pattern (much like a stencil) that is usually made of metal or etched glass to project a pattern. This gives the projection higher contrast, and the material is more heat resistant than a slide. Gobo projectors are usually much simpler than slide projectors because they don’t require complex mechanisms to change slides between shots. Gobo projectors usually use a halogen light source, but in this workshop we use flash to project interesting ...