Category: coloured gels

How to easily use gels to create virtually any color background

Jeff Carpenter

Implementing gels into your photography is a really simple and effective way to make sure your images really stand out from the rest of the crowd. There are a ton of different ways to use gels to create some absolutely stunning imagery, but in this post, I am just going to show you a few […]

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Create amazing night portraits with orange gels and white balance tricks

John Aldred

Using gels to correct your flashes to match the ambient, or as creative effects is common. It’s something many of us do from time to time. Sometimes we use creative gels want that cool colour contrast. At other times we just have to deal with really horrible lighting and need to compensate with corrective gels. […]

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Here are five ways that a photographer can use a plastic bag

Udi Tirosh

Well, here is a random collection. If you have a spare nylon bag lying around, dont throw it away. As a photographer there is plenty you can do with it. Ok, I am just kidding, you can throw that bag away. Hopefully, you have a recycling thing for nylon bags. That said, this random collection […]

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Creating stylish cinematic portraits with the Light Blaster

Clinton lofthouse

I recently got my hands on a Light blaster. The Light Blaster Is a strobe-based image projector. Basically it’s a slide projector. You can select and project still images onto any physical space. They claim “unlimited possibilities for creative freedom“, so I thought I’d take it for a spin.  It is seriously one cool piece of kit […]

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