Flash Photography Tutorial : How to use Color Correction Gels with Strobes
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Flash Photography Tutorial
This series of videos is designed to help off-camera flash beginners quickly advance to lighting with purpose. First, this series assumes you have an understanding of the exposure triangle, and are capable of controlling your camera in Manual mode. While it's possible to use flash with semi-automatic modes, I think it's a requirement to understand lighting in manual mode if you want to take control of all aspects of your images. This series is broken down into short, easy-to-digest lessons that progress you from balancing a single light, to using multiple lights outdoors to drive home the story in your image.
This video is designed to build a fundamental understanding of white balance and color temperature. It starts by introducing white balance and how to identify the color temperature of a scene. It then progresses into how to implement flash which is daylight balanced and gel the flash so it matches with any ambient color temperature. From there it goes over recommended gel systems for speedlights and monolights alike, highlighting gel products from Rosco, Magmod, and Flashgels.com.
Candlelight : 2700K
Tungsten : 3200K
Daylight : 5500K
Cloudy : 6300K
Shade : 7000K+
The color temperature of a light source is the temperature of an ideal black-body radiator that radiates light of a color comparable to that of the light source. Color temperature is a characteristic of visible light that has important applications in lighting, photography, videography, publishing, manufacturing, astrophysics, horticulture, and other fields. In practice, color temperature is meaningful only for light sources that do in fact correspond somewhat closely to the radiation of some black body, i.e., those on a line from reddish/orange via yellow and more or less white to blueish white; it does not make sense to speak of the color temperature of, e.g., a green or a purple light. Color temperature is conventionally expressed in kelvin, using the symbol K, a unit of measure for absolute temperature.
- SERIES PLAYLIST LINK
• Off Camera Flash Photo...
-SERIES VIDEO LIST
Balancing Flash Exposure : • Off Camera Flash Photo...
Balancing Flash Exposure Outdoors: • Off Camera Flash Photo...
Light Modifier Selection: • Off Camera Flash Photo...
Quality of Light: • Off Camera Flash Photo...
Direction of Light: • Off Camera Flash Photo...
Using Quality and Direction to Control Light Patterns: • Off Camera Flash Photo...
Using Color Correction Gels: here
Light Meter Basics : • Light Meter Tutorial P...
Balancing Multiple Lights: • Flash Photography Tuto...
Matching Fluorescent Lights with color correction gels: • Flash Photography Tuto...
Inverse Color effects with color correction gels: • Flash Photography Tuto...
Bringing it All Together Outside: • Outdoor Flash Photogra...
Using Light to Enhance Storytelling:
Selecting Flash Equipment:
@edisoncreative5425 3 жыл бұрын
Robert Hall: you are one of the best instructors out there! Thanks for making your explanations concise and easy to grasp! We appreciate you.
@TheBiggervern 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you Robert. This video is very informative and easy to understand. I'm looking forward to seeing the others in the series.
@goboss 5 жыл бұрын
An excellent demonstration of gels, thank you so much! Super easy and helpful.
@mribi 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this! I’m pumped for the next two 🙂
@vinzaputra 5 жыл бұрын
Very clear explanation, can't wait for the next video for this series
@guyl7835 5 жыл бұрын
I loved this video so much thank you Robert.. please keep making these videos for color temperature etc with gels, you really fueled my creativity with this!!!! Not only is it the best video on color temperature with or without flash that I've ever seen with your multiple pictures of different light color sources and what the camera settings did to those pictures, but it really gave me a new grasp point of view and perspective on color temperature and balancing lights sources that will take my photography and creativity to the next level. Thank you so much! You have a real knack for explaining things in a way that is easy to understand. This could be like many of Hollywood's best movies start out slow but then become awesome classics as time goes on and some of the most watched movies. So don't worry about the low view count..
@PotatoesPotatoPotato 3 жыл бұрын
One of the best, easy to understand, breakdowns of color temperature I’ve seen. Thanks!!!! This was really helpful.
@Amirmediacorp 5 жыл бұрын
I was calling myself a photographer without knowing any of these info. That's why I was struggling a lot in post by using local settings in Lightroom to correct temperature on different parts of my image, and it's painful and time consuming. I really appreciate the awesome and useful video. It's full of information that is really necessary to anyone who is serious about photography.
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah man. You can create wonderful images without ever knowing this stuff. But this type of thing not only helps you realize your vision when your environment is less than ideal, but it's great for building consistency, decreasing post process time and therefore making more money!
@Amirmediacorp 5 жыл бұрын
Robert Hall Photography I fully agree with you! Thanks for the informative videos you make and keep it up. Looking forward to watching the following episodes about gels.
@pyroBlastM 2 жыл бұрын
This is gold. Understood all this stuff about gel and colour balance. Makes sense.
@catherinedean4153 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you sooo much! For the first time I'm going to delve into using gels, you inspired me! Thank you!
@marcustenhaafus 3 жыл бұрын
Great presentation - You have an exceptional skill for explaining concepts with clarity. Subscribed.
@wendystumbaugh695 5 жыл бұрын
YOU ARE AWESOME!!! Thank you, Robert! The ONLY one who delivers!
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
:) thank you!
@sneepsnorp3d 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for this video! :) This is the best explanation I've come across so far - you make gels so much less scary. Thank you thank you!
@danimvsprime 5 жыл бұрын
This was, by far, the best video I've seen on this subject. Thanks Robert!
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
That's so encouraging to hear, thank you!
@DoodyAtraktsi 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, really useful and nicely explained info. looking forward for the next two videos.
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much, ill have them both up in the following weeks
@kevinpr007 3 жыл бұрын
One of the best gel explanation in KZfaq for sure!!!! Keep doing it like that 💪🏽🙌🏽🎉
@JoaquimGonsalves 3 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@seanperry3694 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Robert! I started following you because of your previous color correction video. Seeing this makes me happy and looking forward to the next two videos. I’ve been shooting with color correction gels a bit and what a difference they make.
@MrJueKa 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for this useful tutorial series about white balance, one of the more important topics of photography especially when using speedlights in my case, I`m looking forward for the upcoming parts.
@HaskellMoore Жыл бұрын
Excellent, concise video. Thank you!
@MrDavidsdale1 2 жыл бұрын
BEST Explanation of ALL videos. thank you.
@longshotvisuals2252 4 жыл бұрын
This video is excellent. Great explanation. Massive thanks!
@FerdoFulgosi Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this! We had a discussion a few days ago on a photography FB group on this exact topic, so this video will confirm my point.
@renoholland7090 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Thank you.
@briantorok8877 4 жыл бұрын
Great series so far. Looking forward to the advanced gels tutorials.
@robhallphoto 4 жыл бұрын
There is still a 4th coming. But 2 follow up videos on gels are linked in the description.
@heatherkanillopoolos7441 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for mentioning flashgels.com- I've been looking for the longest time for pre-cut gels for my ad600 and ad200!
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
No problem. Yeah he's the only one in the biz doing it. What's nice is it's all the same gels across his Godox products too so it's very consistent if you use different types of lights.
@trevhillphotography7852 5 жыл бұрын
Great video. Looking forward to see how you tackle fluro. It does my head in a bit. 🤪
@beemarentertainmentltd281 3 жыл бұрын
You the BEST Rob. Really appreciate. Very informative presentation👐🏽👏🏽💪
@HussainAli-pv7kk 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. Informative video in very easy way
@Madhuri7891 5 жыл бұрын
This was very informative. Thank you
@Herkulez1981 3 жыл бұрын
Just by chance i stumbled over one of tour videos with gels outside and immediatly felt it was the next step for me to learn om my road to master this art of ours and today i got them so this serie of videos was really helpfull thank you !!!
@wens6574 Жыл бұрын
I love you dude, really2 love you, you made it all simple and easy to understand. Thank you so much!
@donpointer2656 4 жыл бұрын
Excellent explanation! Thank you very much! I look forward to parts 2 and 3!
@robhallphoto 4 жыл бұрын
They are linked in the description ("Matching Fluorescent Lights with color correction gels" and "Inverse Color Effects with Color Correction Gels"
@SamGarza 5 жыл бұрын
Very informative. Thank you 👍🏻
@GeraldBertramPhotography 5 жыл бұрын
Great video! This is something I deal with daily in my real estate photography. Outdoor light flooding in the window combined with the light from incandescent bulbs in the interior fixtures.
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Real estate has gotta be so rough. I can only imagine the overcast color coming in from outside combined with lights of all sorts of colors and tints. Do you find that people tend to have consistent color lighting throughout their homes or is that often screwed up?
@GeraldBertramPhotography 5 жыл бұрын
@@robhallphoto I would say 90% of the homes I shoot have mixed lighting not to mention all the color casts you will get from painted walls or certain types of flooring. A lot of photographers like to turn off the inside lights to battle the mixed lighting but I feel that looks odd. When you go to look at a home to potentially buy you don't walk through the house with all the lights turned off! So I tend to adjust my shutter speeds to minimize ambient light and then use my AD200s to bounce light off the ceilings which are usually white in most homes to get the most accurate color. I just feel using flash in real estate looks so much better than ambient only or HDR.
@jameswburke 3 жыл бұрын
Look at Rich Baum's channel on KZfaq. He uses flash and ambient blended light for real estate. Nathan Cool Pro also very good. Bit of post production involved but it works great.
@hmoobs1 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. This is the best explaination of how gels are used to the ordinary person like me to understand.
@RatherBDiving1 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks! This was a great video.
@michaelreynolds6543 3 жыл бұрын
Just getting into all this and this presentation helped me a lot. Its hard to get your head around at first but if you persevere it will all click the key is to practice. I set up a fluffy toy in the kitchen got some CTO & CTB and just cracked on with the help of you tubers like this. I set up my pixapro softbox/beauty dish with my Yongnou speedlight (not HSS) cut out some squared to cover the flash and then changed my WB to 2500 Kelvin and just dialled in settings that I felt happy with. It was fun to see how all this worked and I can see the potential for more creative photography once I purchase a decent flash. But for now Im still in the practice mode and getting it all into my brain.
@facu_eze_peralta 5 жыл бұрын
Nice video! I wait for the other two videos! This subject is so interesting for me ♥ love it! Sorry about my bad english, i speak spanish.
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, your English is great!
@LaneMaine 2 жыл бұрын
I spent 40 years developing instructional materials on technical topics. Congratulations! This was clear and audience-centric. My next step would be to follow it up with a workshop in which people apply what they learned and get feedback on their work. You are a great communicator. If you have ever thought about hosting a workshop I have two words of advice, "Do it."
@black-and-light 4 жыл бұрын
Perfect! Thank you! 👍🏻
@ScottTice1971 5 жыл бұрын
Excellent basic info!
@abhishekrangdhol 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your detailed explanation:)
@opx4real 5 жыл бұрын
Great video! Very helpful. 😁
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Cheers. So are you.
@aldrindetablan4358 5 жыл бұрын
Man thank you so much.. this is a gold knowledge!
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
No problem, glad you found it helpful!
@Heiko_K 3 жыл бұрын
. . . "gels are propably the most underused tools in photography" -- very true. that´s because noone really knows when and how to use them - including myself -). I´d never thought about using them (talking about the corrections filters) because I thought I could fix it in post. Turned out to be quite difficult, so thank you for this series on videos you made on the topic. I´m glad you produce all this content on Godox products -- without it a lot of us Godox users would be kind of left hanging in the air. There isn´t much coming from the company itself, and the other channels I´ve found so far dealing with Godox aren´t as consistent and well done as yours. So thanks again! Greetings from Germany, Heiko.
@sols9449 5 жыл бұрын
Excellent video!
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@olivierbornand5275 5 жыл бұрын
thanks for all your videos !!! Cannot wait longer for numbers 2 and 3...:-)) Olivier
@joes2828 5 жыл бұрын
Thank u this is great!
@d-mack8110 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Robert this is very informative. Got a MagMod base kit for Xmas.
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
They make gelling super quick. Awesome tool to have.
@jensbladt5498 4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant tools
@prabhukaran404 5 жыл бұрын
very use full information Thank you so much
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome.
@CrisostomoIbarra1989 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!
@Herkulez1981 3 жыл бұрын
And this is the best video on youtube för this
@slwood1955 4 жыл бұрын
Great video... You should mention the color meter built into almost all digital cameras, PRE white balance! In fact, use of PRE white balance with a grey or white card would make for an excellent stand alone video. Cheers!
@gerarddonovan8678 4 жыл бұрын
Nice explanation 🙂
@stevenaston7126 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Robert. You explain the complexity of flash photography very well. Keep producing great videos and I'll keep liking them! Any experience with the Sony flash system HVL-F60RM and the FA-WRC1M transmitter?
@sujaytawde3130 4 жыл бұрын
give him billion dollars for explaining so nicely best tutor and photographer :)
@bharatpania655 5 жыл бұрын
Nice , very informative
@fletcherdavies8749 5 жыл бұрын
Informative Robert. I have been using Rouge round Gels with the Godox H200R head which work well, the gels also have light loss printed on them too.I hope Godox improve and expand the AK-R1 Gels, but I guess it will take time.
@actiaint 5 жыл бұрын
Yep, this vid the penny finally dropped for me thanks!
@emmgeevideo 5 жыл бұрын
Wow. Thank you for this advanced look at gels. I’m going have to watch a few more times to understand. I thought that shooting raw made setting in-camera white balance unnecessary. I hope in future videos you can address this. Much of the time I don’t use a flash but still run into how to manage white balance. I’ve always assumed that raw was the best way to shoot.
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Shooting in raw does allow you to modify color. The problem is an image with split color. If you have half of an image lit by tungsten lighting and half by daylight, theres no white balance setting that will make both colors look normal. You could use the raw image to do local adjustments like brushing to potentially make it appear one color, but that's so much excess work when tossing a gel on your flash fixes it completely and looks more natural.
@jasonbodden8816 5 жыл бұрын
Great vid.
@richardweathers6194 3 жыл бұрын
I was following along and thinking 'how the heck...' when you rolled into the demonstration with the digital lights and the in-camera temperature adjustments to match each simulation. This video was great along with your other content, especially those that explain why you'd need a particular flash model. I plan on upgrading my Neewer 750II & TT560's to a GODOX V1 & two AD200's based on your videos & my own experience so far. Thanks for the help!
@fabianbetto 5 жыл бұрын
Verry good video! I am looking forward to video 2 and 3. When i shoot at sunrise/sunset i need add a CTO (Full CTO) and when i shoot in the city at night a CTB (Full CTB) is this correct?
@philipbrown7947 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks - this is really helpful for some events I’ve got coming up soon. I was wondering if it’s usually ok to trust auto WB when using CTO to balance colours in the room, and then edit the WB in Lightroom if it’s needed?
@greatday2224 5 жыл бұрын
nice video. very helpful. from Cape Town, South Africa
@kurtgremer 5 жыл бұрын
Love the videos keep it up
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
THanks so much!
@cbphil2 5 жыл бұрын
Great 8 Thanks very much !!
@ThomasRuhlandPhotography 4 жыл бұрын
Yeh🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘 you are the number one man👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@clarkjones7765 4 жыл бұрын
This is a great video..thanks so much. Question: How do I know, when I walk into a room, what kind of light im looking at? Many times its obvious but not always.
@robhallphoto 4 жыл бұрын
By "type" do you mean style of bulb? You can almost associate them with periods in time or type of building. A classic church is more likely to have incandescent bulbs or potentially replacement CFL bulbs whereas an older office will likely have florescent tubes behind diffusion panels. More modern interiors are using all sorts of configurations with LEDs. I really don't know how to explain how to know other than, knowing what each of the bulbs look like.
@dubiousjesse 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this easy-to-follow video. I bought the Selens gel kit from Amazon 4 years ago and used them once because the colors were horrible! 😂
@tristanmadridejo 5 жыл бұрын
Great video, just in time and I just bought some gels, can you or do you have a tutorial for a proper way of using/connecting xpro markii with godox tt600? or something like that as I'm new to flash and triggers. You inspired me of buying both last week.
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
No I've actually never had the TT600 to make a video with it. It's pretty similar to the V350 though if you want to watch that video.
@Zimmermankaty 2 жыл бұрын
Your videos have been super helpful for figuring out how to use color corrective gels. In this video when you set your custom white balance your camera is giving you the kelvin and tint readings. I'm working with a Canon R6 and can't seem to find that info when I add an image for CWB. I'm wondering if this is a manufacturer difference or if I'm looking in the wrong place. Any idea?
@Yinas 5 жыл бұрын
magmods are so convenient! got myself two sets for my two speedlights, best investment so far (for accessories) :D still looking for something similarly simple for my strobe's head... so yeah same issue as you have with your ad200 :/
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah nothing quick exists for the AD200 barebulb. Part of the reason I've switched to the round head.
@johnpeterka8355 6 ай бұрын
Thank you for your video of Gels! Based on your video, would I have to gel all lights or just the key and fill lights? Thank you. JP
@Amirmediacorp 5 жыл бұрын
Hey Robert. After watching your video yesterday, I started to search for gels for my V860II and AD200. Just checked Magmod website and found out their new octabox (Magbox) which you can add gels to your light inside the softbox. It looks interesting. Have you ever used this softbox? Any thoughts? I'll appreciate if you can review it.
@wpeng4 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for another great video. Does soft box or diffuser change the color temperature? If I use a large soft box over a gelled flash, is light going to maintain the color temperature?
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
All modifiers will warm or cool the flash a little bit, but not to the extent that it will offset your gel. At most it should deviate like 100K or so, and if it does more its due to aging of the materials or a really cheap softbox.
@benjvillena 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you! :)
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome
@mikezupancic2182 4 жыл бұрын
at 1:29 of the video you show that there will be 3 videos on using gels. Can you please update the description with the names/links for those videos? I think I found the second one, titled Flash Photography tips for using colored effect gels. Hopefully that is the one as video #2.
@JeffreyJDavis 8 ай бұрын
Excellent video. I've been using the custom white balance on my Sony A1 wrong! I've been shooting the gray card with flash turned on (gelled or naked)and using that Kevin. Sounds like the objective is to measure ambient WB and then to gel to get as close as possible to that color temp which makes sense?
@robhallphoto 8 ай бұрын
You got it! In the former way, you are getting a "middleground Kelvin". Basically the number if you were mixing light together in a bowl. Unfortunately the light doesn't mix, which results in the split color casts where either light source casts shadows. By identifying the ambient color and gelling your flash to that temp, where either light source hits as well as cast shadows will all be the same temperature.
@JeffreyJDavis 8 ай бұрын
@@robhallphoto thanks for the response! So realistically if most of us are traveling with just full / half / quarter CTO & CTB, how close do we need to get to ambient? Within several hundred K?
@os6219 5 жыл бұрын
Actually when you are talking of fire, blue is the hottest area and orange the area most oxygenated, thus coolest by far, but I got it anyway. Thank you for this video series!
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Blue flame is the hottest (degrees) and most cool color Orange flame is the coldest (degrees) and most warm color. It's the same as how colors work on the Kelvin scale.
@manilamartin1001 5 жыл бұрын
Nice video. You did a good job explaining something that I don't usually see people do. You can also check out Bobbi Lane who explains how to correct for two light sources in her book. I've always used a color meter. You can get a kenko color meter or an older minolta color meter. Sekonic makes a great one now but it is $1500 and might be a bit much for amateur photographers. Thanks again.
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah it seems the best present day budget option is the Illuminati. Even those older ones can be quite pricey. I really have to get something soon.
@Innovate-pq9ci 5 жыл бұрын
Great video Robert! Quick question, are there more gels available for the AK-R1 H200R round head
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Not currently. They said they'd be adding them but yet to make any announcements. I've been using the kits from flashgels.com cause they are cut perfectly and accurate.
@Innovate-pq9ci 5 жыл бұрын
@@robhallphoto Thanks Robert, so if I understand correctly, YES but with third party gels from flashgels.com and not from Godox. If so, fine by me! I'll check flashgels.com
@davidarteaga7054 5 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks for the info. I am going to ask a silly question? If going higher in temperature is cooler and low is warmer, when then it LR the temp is opposite as you go higher it is warmer?
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Think of it like light color is the outdoor air and post production is a heating/cooling system. Proper white balance is just like a comfortable room. If the air is very cold, the furnace has to heat (add warmth) to even it out. And if the air is very warm the AC has to cool it to even out. The act of choosing your white balance (in camera or in post) is the method of compensating for the color of light. So in order to make blue light (let's say 9000k) white, you have to add lots of yellow. And to make yellow light white you have to add lots of blue. That's why it's represented in the inverse manner.
@davidarteaga7054 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!@@robhallphoto
@stevenbagley9858 4 жыл бұрын
What light are you using to get the blue colored background?
@abhishekrangdhol 4 жыл бұрын
I see Godox has wistro mini reflector with gels for AD200..not sure if this is a new launch:)
@UdoLuetze 5 жыл бұрын
Good job, we ll done! Have you considered a 4th video on the Illuminati light and color meter? For $299 at Adorama, it is an incredible tool for measuring color and the app will help you select the right gel. This makes color metering affordable. I use it and don’t want to miss it. Looking forward to your next videos in this series.
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah I checked it out at WPPI in 2018 but that was before they were available. I was actually in contact with them for a while but it dropped off before they ever started releasing them. I'll definitely check it out, I'd love to get more accurate color tests for my strobe comparisons too.
@UdoLuetze 5 жыл бұрын
I think this is the first time that color measurements are affordable. The app has a library of most common filters. When you select some filters, the display will show you the color temperature of ambient, strobe and strobe + filter. This makes it real easy to select the right filter prior to installing it. Have fun with it.
@edb2720 Жыл бұрын
Last month I got a Godox TT350 speedlight and I've been struggling with the white balance. If I take a picture of something dark or grey and bring the raw file into photoshop or DxO, I see that the proper white balance is around 8000k and -20 for the tint, that's a far cry from the 5500k that it's rated at. I've been getting a cool color cast when taking pictures outside when white balancing to 5500k. If I get a perfect gray or white, then the other colors end up looking warm in my factory calibrated monitor, although I guess that's how it's supposed to look like, I'm just not used to it.
@DenisFisser 5 жыл бұрын
You rock.
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@heartweddingsphotography2490 2 жыл бұрын
HI Rob, ask a silly question when using the kelvin in my camera the Kelvin reading is opposite the above graph, EG, 2500K on the back of the camera is blue:-(
@robhallphoto 2 жыл бұрын
That's because a camera is compensating for the color of light. 7000k is a blue light, meaning a camera needs it's 7000k to apply a lot of yellow to offset what is naturally occurring.
@Bassbarbie 4 жыл бұрын
The penny has dropped! I barely use flash, but sometimes I have to for a voluntary organisation. I’ve always struggled getting nice skin tones with accurate background colours.... can’t wait to try a cto next time! Thank you.
@marcomark8 3 жыл бұрын
@ 8:04 what did you mean when you said, you can choose the appropriate gel. It that what the B0.5 is?
@p.burley4533 3 жыл бұрын
Can you combine a color correction with a creative on one bulb?
@MexBytes 3 жыл бұрын
I noticed your video on 2:47 had a warm tone instead of a blue cooler tone. Are they opposite on your camera?
@acsproule 5 жыл бұрын
Great information but is there anyway you could not put an ad in the middle of your video or at least not let it cut you off mid sentence. Your stuff is super informative and if you ever see deals on the evolve or ad200 let me know because I hate I missed that deal back in December.
@bradleachphoto 4 жыл бұрын
Hey, you mention not to put gels over exposed flash tubes. How then do you mount the gels for the AD200's bare bulb?
@robhallphoto 4 жыл бұрын
There is glass covering the flash tube on the AD200 barebulb, so nothing makes contact with the tube when you gel the barebulb.
@bradleachphoto 3 жыл бұрын
@@robhallphoto Perfect, thanks for the reply!
@clydehamilton8138 4 жыл бұрын
Robert - thanks for the info, however I'm confused. Just watched a MagMod video with Trevor Dayley and re: the effect of color temps. he said the opposite of what this video states. Namely lowering the Kelvin setting in the camera to around 3200 will create a blue scene, while 10,000 Kelvin in the camera turns the scene a deep orange/yellow. Your color scale shows the higher the Kelvin temp the more blue the image. Am I misunderstanding something? Appreciate your feedback.
@robhallphoto 4 жыл бұрын
We're both right. My Kelvin scale shows the color of light at various temperatures, lower number is warmer/more yellow light. Higher number is cooler/more blue light. What the camera does to an image at those Kelvin settings is the opposite. It adds yellow at higher temperatures, to neutralize blue light. It adds blue at lower temperatures, to neutralize yellow light. So the cameras WB setting provides the opposite effect of the true color of light.
@clydehamilton8138 4 жыл бұрын
@@robhallphoto Wow - thanks Robert. I've noticed this apparent discrepancy before, but not in back-to-back videos. Thanks for clearing that up.
@alexmorgillo434 9 ай бұрын
Hi Robert! have a question and I would really appreciate it if you could clarify it for me. If I am photographing in a very large indoor environment in which I must balance the ambient light with the flash light, but I have an extreme situation of lamps with lights at 2800 Kelvin and another at 7000 Kelvin, is it possible to balance these extremes using the CTO or CTB? Thank you for your attention! Thank you very much
@robhallphoto 9 ай бұрын
If there's split color in the ambient light sources, the only way to eliminate it is if you can underexpose the dimmer one enough to eliminate its impact on the photos, and then gel your flash to the remaining light source. It also depends how isolated they are from one another. For instance if its can lights with alternating temperatures, there's really no eliminating that difference. But if you have ceiling light at 3200 but window light coming in and both bounce around, then the ambient white balance is probably somewhere in the middle.
@alexmorgillo434 9 ай бұрын
Thank you! Appreciate!
@acarde 5 жыл бұрын
I've been looking for an easy way to get the Godox AD-B2 with a single bulb or two bulbs. Have you found any solutions yet? P.S. Your reviews have been a huge impact on my buying decisions. I try to use your affiliate links but I can't always do that with discounts here and there. Please keep up the great work and I hope your sponsors know how much impact you have.
@robhallphoto 5 жыл бұрын
Easy, don't know that there is one. But the most complete way is definitely the flashgels.com ones since they are perfectly cut to cover the barebulb 100%
@acarde 5 жыл бұрын
Oh, I see what you're saying. Use the AD200 barebulb gels. Since there are two bulbs in the AD-B2 it'll be $100 for the two kits. Kind of more than I'd like to spend on gels. I might have to buy full sheet's and get the inside of the modifiers. :-/ I wish Godox had a solution for this. Or if someone came up with an aftermarket solution. Thanks though.
@joseph-the-seventh 3 жыл бұрын
You say not to put gels on bare bulbs but I’ve seen you put gels directly on the AD200Pro ... can you clarify when it’s ok to apply directly to a bulb and when it’s not? Thanks.
@robhallphoto 3 жыл бұрын
In the video I say do not put gels on a flash tube. The flash tube (helical shaped bulb) of the AD200 barebulb is covered by glass, which is safe to put gels on since the glass does not get hot enough to burn a heat resistant gel. But an exposed flash tube (like a PCB Einstein if you remove the diffusion cover) should not be gelled or even touched. Just the oils from your hand can cause the bulb to explode once it gets hot.
@joseph-the-seventh 3 жыл бұрын
@@robhallphoto Ahh ok. I don't think I've ever used strobes that have truly exposed bulbs, which is why I was a bit confused. Thanks for clearing that up!
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