Flash photography tip: Use colour filters
Saturday 25 March 2023, 13:31 by Elja Trum | 3,625 views | 1 commentThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Flash light has a white daylight colour. In some situations and creative setups, it is useful and fun to work with coloured light. You can use colour filters for this.
There are various systems available for placing colour filters, often called colour gels in English, over your flashes.
Some flash units already come with a limited number of colour filters as standard.
I use a DIY solution based on small strips of colour gel, which I attach to my flashes with Velcro, but ready-made solutions are also available from Honl, Falcon Eyes and MagMod, among others. You can see one on the middle flash in the photo.
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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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1 comment
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Maurice Debusschere wrote on Friday 31 March 2023 at 18:24 | replyHonestly, I have them lying around for all my flashes, supplied, bought and homemade, but I’ve never used a single one. As a mood setter, I usually bounce my flash off a wall, ceiling or reflector. Good idea to get creative in a different way for once.
Translated from Dutch.
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