CTO (Color Temperature Orange) Warming Gel Filter Selection Kit 8 x 8 Inches

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Temperature adjustment gels will make a light source “cooler” or “warmer” depending on what is used. For instance, a CTO (color temperature orange) will make a light warmer, whereas a CTB (color temperature blue) will make it colder. The CTO and CTB gels can be easily confused with orange and blue gels so it is important to understand that those gels are not the same, and will not give a similar effect at all. I remember once trying to recreate sunlight using a yellow gel, only to find out that this didn’t work at all. This article is about color correction using lighting and camera filters. For video color correction in post-production, see Color grading. For color correction of still images in post-production, see Color balance. For mutual color correction of digital images, see Color mapping. The key point I want you to look at in the images above is the Kelvin value. I’ve circled it in the top right of each image, but when you shoot the CTB/CTO splice ordinarily, it comes out very visually warm in the middle where the CTO gel is. But if we adjust the white balance/Kelvin on our cameras, we can correct that warm colour and thereby remove the orange looking subject.

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If you're photographing with an older flash, it may only go down to 1/16th power, which can be too much. (Most modern flashes go down to 1/128 power). One of the main uses of flash gels is when you are photographing under colored lighting (e.g. tungsten, fluorescent), but need to add in a bit of extra lighting with a flash. Flashes are color balanced to daylight, whereas fluorescent lighting has a green tint, and tungsten appears quite orange. In some cases matching your artificial lighting to the ambient lighting can make an image weaker rather than stronger. If you're photographing a portrait under cloud or in the shade, technically you would add a light blue to your flash to match the color temperature of the ambient lighting. Work with the subject and guide the pose - Nearly every half-decent lighting setup requires your subject to work their pose with the lighting. Having your subjects chin-up and allowing that soft light to fall on their face will often produce great results with this setup. This image was a bit complicated to set up, but here the gel is very important cause without it the image would lose a lot of sense and credibility. Photograph #7 – selective lighting

Photograph #7 – selective lighting

In this photo, I used five different light sources each of them with different gels. Photograph #8 – long exposure Take an initial shot…it should result in an 18% gray towel if the camera’s meter is doing its job. Now increase the FEC by about 1.3 to 1.5 stops and take a baseline test shot. The towel should now be white, with some texture still showing up. By 1945 more heat-tolerant and self-extinguishing acetate-based through-dyed materials were being manufactured (marketed as Chromoid then Cinemoid by Strand Electric). In the U.S., Roscolene (acetate) was also developed to deal with these higher output light sources. Though cheaper, the acetate filters fell out of favor with professional organizations since they could not withstand the higher temperatures produced by the tungsten halogen lamps that came into widespread use in the late 1960s. The acetate-based material was replaced by polycarbonates like Roscolar ( mylar polycarbonate) and polyester-based filters. These materials have superior heat tolerance when compared to acetate-based gels. Many were transparent film with a surface coating. The first dyed polyester gels were introduced by Berkey Colortran in 1969 as Gelatran, the original deep-dyed polyester. [3] The Gelatran process is still used today to produce GAMColor (100% of the line) and Roscolux (about 30% of the line). [4] Other color manufacturers, such as Lee Filters and Apollo Design Technology, use a surface applied dye. (Roscolux is 70% polycarbonate and 30% deep-dyed polyester.) Viper_'Magenta'_Filter". www.cinematography.net. Archived from the original on 9 December 2006 . Retrieved 12 January 2022.

s the difference between using CTO gels and CTB gels? What’s the difference between using CTO gels and CTB gels?

The GAMColor line from Rosco employs a three digit numbering system, organized by the wavelength of the principle color in the family, i.e.: Blues in the 800's with primary blue at 850 (though the manufacturer's numbers do not relate directly to any wavelength, transmission, or frequency). The same applies to Greens in the 600's, Reds in the 200's, etc. If you still haven’t gotten yourself an Optical Snoot yet, firstly you’re crazy, and secondly here’s a link to the one I use - Optical Snoot at Essential PhotoI personally don’t see the Optical Snoot a specialist lighting modifier any more and I really do believe this is a must-have modifier for any strobist at this point. Sure, get your softbox and your beauty dish first, but then get yourself an optical snoot. I guarantee you won’t regret it and once you have one, you’ll end up using it way more than you thought you would. You could also try using the CTS over the flash and co a custom white balance of a wall by flash illumination only. This will tell the camera that it is white and to make it white. When photographing a scene, the light falling on the subject has now been filtered and correct to show natural colors. The White Paper" (PDF). www.etconsult.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2006 . Retrieved 12 January 2022.

8 Awesome Lighting Setups Using Gels For Creativity 8 Awesome Lighting Setups Using Gels For Creativity

Since warm and cool are colors, we can change their characteristics by modifying color. In lighting we achieve this modification by using various colored gels of varying densities.Lets examine the first and simplest method. Method One – Using Color Gels on the Flash The particular color of a white light source can be simplified into a correlated color temperature (CCT). The higher the CCT, the bluer the light appears. Sunlight at 5600K, for example, appears much bluer than tungsten light at 3200K. Unlike a chromaticity diagram, the Kelvin scale reduces the light source's color into one dimension. Thus, light sources of the same CCT may appear green or magenta in comparison with one another. [1] Fluorescent lights, for example, are typically very green in comparison with other types of lighting. However, some fluorescent lamps are designed to have a high faithfulness to an ideal light, as measured by its color rendering index (CRI). This dimension, along lines of constant CCT, is sometimes measured in terms of green–magenta balance; [2] this dimension is sometimes referred to as "tint" or "CC". With most photography and filmmaking equipment, you can often buy third party and cheaper variations of branded equipment and tools. But, with gels I would suggest purchasing a legitimate branded version. They are calibrated explicitly in their color and engineered to withstand the heat from a hot lamp. The slightest discrepancy in the production of the gel will give you a variety of results. The reason shadows on the face may look green when shooting indoor portraits is the inherent green in fluorescent lighting. The green comes from an inconsistency in tint that comes from indoor fluorescent lights. If the light is green enough you may need to add green color gels to your strobe. This is less common now that LEDs are more widely used. Purchasing and Attaching GelsI am considering using it for my next wedding. I guess I would shoot a full CTS at about 3300K which I shot using the CTO?