Studio Anywhere 2: Hard Light

CHAPTER 8

COLORED GELS

Colored gels are the smallest, simplest, cheapest, and yet most powerful light modifiers. With a single one of these small pieces of acetate, you can transform the entire mood of a portrait. Gels are most commonly used for color correction, such as when you need to reduce the orange glow in a tungsten-lit room. In the previous Studio Anywhere book, I also discussed how to use the situationally opposite corrective gel to push ambient colors to your liking. This chapter on colored gels will go more into color theory and how to stack colored light to get stylized results. Although I most often use gels in a studio-like setting, I also love using them to introduce a pop of color in outdoor scenarios, as seen on the opposite ...