Friday, July 11, 2008

Coloured Flash Photography


© Marcos Aspiazu
Originally uploaded by maspiazu
Experiment with filters for special effects and unique lighting effects.

If you put a coloured gel on your flash and then take a photo, the foreground of your image (everything lit by the flash) will be the same colour as the gel.

What if you put an opposite coloured gel on your lens to cancel out the effects of the gel on your flash? Now the foreground of your image (lit by your coloured flash) will be back to normal colour, but your background (ie NOT lit by flash) will be tinted by the effects of the gel on your lens.

So you could put a red tint on you flash, a blue tint on your lens and end up with a blue background.

by MikeTheBikey

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