CHAPTER 11 GEL COLOR EFFECTS
THE SETUP
The flash directly in front of our subject has a beauty dish, which is great for accenting cheekbones and adding a little more contrast to the skin, but this isn’t our standard setup because the beauty dish is just being used as a fill. The main flashes are the two behind her. We put colored gels over the front of each flash and turned them up very bright, so that front flash just added a little kicker of light in front, so it’s not solid color. To give some movement to her hair, we have a high-powered ...
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