Using Colored Gels for Videos and Photos
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- Need some color in your lighting? Video and photo gels to the rescue!
Using colored gels is one of the most controlled and budget friendly ways to color a gel. Who needs RGB lighting when you can add color to any video or photo light!
GEL FILTER KITS
Digital Juiced Correction Gels: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...
Neewer Gel Kits on Amazon (PAID LINK): geni.us/cEGQfSB
Roscoe Photo Gel Kit: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...
All Roscoe Gel Kits: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/ro...
Using filter gels to color you lights gives you almost infinite options for color. RGB bulbs and lights aren't always designed for video use and can cause strobing issues. With gels, you can turn your high powered led lights into great background/effect lights for your videos or photos.
Type of gels:
CTB (color temperature blue)
CTO (color temperature orange)
Plus Green (green)
Minus Green (magenta)
Effect/color/DJ gels (various colors) - Фільми й анімація
THANK YOU CALEB!!! My Goodness! May you never fade sir... you just have no idea how much improvements I've been making since I subbed! Thank you soooo much man!
I can't believe how much of a difference changing the white balance made on that cinematic shot. That was so cool! Love your videos!
That blueish green really gives the vibe of the film "Heat"
I watched 3-4 videos on this and this one was by far the best. Thanks for being concise and informative.
You are the best. Thank you so much for all the information you give. I paid 65K for fullsail to teach me digital cinematography and I learn more about the details from you than I ever did there.
How do you not have more subscribers? The quality and information in your videos is great! Wayy better than other channels I've seen with more subscribers putting out similar content. I hope you shoot up there with them (or past them 😊). Great videos!! So glad I found your channel!
I really needed this video, very simple and informative
Thank you very much
Thanks Caleb for another great video! It inspired me to also play around with colored gels.
Thanks for sharing this information. I appreciate how it was simple and straight forward. Exactly what I needed.
This is a really great video. Your content just keeps getting more and more professional. Very inspiring content!
This is so good! Thanks for making such a clear and helpful video about lighting.
literately perfect, was about to buy some colour gels and didn't know where to start! you saved me doing loads of research!
right! i wasn't expecting much and ended up taking notes
Great Vid as always! I just started using the Newer ones got them off Amazon. Really easy to tape to my Newer lights ( just don't be like me and remember to peel both sides of the gel lol) Great for color backgrounds, but you do lose a lot of light if you use 2 on there.
Your channel is so helpful, thanks Caleb!
ON-point... superb everything. Thank you Caleb.
This was excellent. Thank you for producing.
most helpful channel on youtube for upcoming filmmakers. Thanks bro keep creating!
5:10 LOL how has no one commented on this scene of Caleb polishing a bang bang with a nearly finished handle of whiskey 😂 You crazy Caleb. It’s subtle. But you’re a lunatic. 👏
Thank you, Caleb. It is so simple very useful for me.
Hey Caleb! New subscriber here......great video! Love the approach you use to teach others....you have a gift sir! Keep the vids coming.....I have been filming on DLSR for close to 10 years now and have learned all kinds of little tricks from your vids. We never stop learning that is for sure. Have a great day dude!
Thanks for all the videos you make 🙇
It's really helpful. Keep em coming.
Dhanyabad 🙇🙇
Thanks, man! Was looking to invest in my first set and wanted a little review before I hopped in. Muchas Gracias.
I loved this video! I've seen plenty on gels and colors, but I still learned some stuff. 2 things: my favorite thing about this video is that you used a narrative example and not exclusively interview/B Roll. Please do this again! 2ndly, that particular tip you gave in the narrative example is one I haven't seen before, and I think it could be a great way to get, for example a "The Matrix" style green cast. Thanks, sir!
Whoohoo finally caught up on all your videos. Summer is finally dying down in Dubai so projects are picking up again. I promise not to be late with upcomong videos lol. Thanks Caleb
Great video, as usual.
Alex Buono gave an excellent example during one of workshops a couple of years ago for plus and minus green - he was shooting in a store and had to deal with existing lighting. There were two different types of lighting used - one type over the shelves and another over the aisles and one was more magenta. Simply trying to white balance the person he was filming in the aisle would have caused the products to be off and vice versa. Same goes for mixed color temps in stores and offices. Correction gels can be a life saver.
Alex Buono is the man!
Just wanted to say thanks for the idea that I had never thought about which you talked about ~5 min mark, change my white balance to be the color of the majority of the light that I want in the scene and then gel my other light to be the opposite to compensate. It was one of those oh-duh, I knew that trick moments that your video reminded me about.
A little tip on buying from Digital Juice. Wait till the gel kit goes on sale (Which it do often) on their website and then see if B&H has the same sale. The shipping I find is a little too high when you buy from Digital Juice directly. I have a lot of their products and I can highly recommend them for anyone who is just starting out, especially their gear bags which I have several of and are great quality bags.
Fantastic. Have a green tinge problem with my fluorescent tubes. Rosco was wonderful to work with on getting minusgreen gels.
Very creative for your background s lighting. Thanks for your sharing again.
Thanks for this Caleb and congrats on 200k!
Just picked up a set of the Roscoe 12x12" to go on my westcott flex LED's.
Thanks Caleb! That is actually a brilliant combo. Perfect size!
Love the video , I know Gels can be pricey but I love using the Rosco lighting kit 1by1 but the sample packs are great for small practical and or small accents
Hey Caleb, great video! I've been waiting for you to do a subject like this.
Question about color correcting. I know various light meters tell you how to color correct your light. They'll say helpful things like "minus 1/8 green" etc. but what if you don't have a light meter? What's the best way to know what amount of color correction to add to your lights?
Also, what do you think the best way to gel up a swirly CFL bulb is? My main key light is 2x80 watt CFLs in a china ball because it's budget friendly and a decent amount of light. I imagine it has some light cast that I could correct, however.
Great video, really loved this one.
Thanks for the great info Caleb.
Thanks dude! Your videos rocks!
The gun cleaning scene looks pretty amazing. So when white balancing to the light with the gel on it you just hold an 18% grey card directly in front of the light or a few feet from it or...? I get the feeling that the intensity of the WB "effect" would be altered by how close or far away you set balance to the gelled light.
The best useful video delivered to the world of video/photographers every week thank you .. my GURU
Thank you for the kind words Prasad!
Great video! Loved all the examples, would love to see how you light other real life situations in other locations. Thanks for all the information!
Thank you George!
Helped on a shoot I had this weekend. Thank u!!!!
Waited for this video sooo long hahah ! I did buy a led rgb light (should get it any moment now ), let's hope it delivers , if not these gels seems to be my next pick !
Great breakdown thank you
Great video, as usual!!!
great video! especially liked the gel the key light and playing with white balance trick.
Thanks Timothy!
This is some next level shit! Good work man. I can tell you working hard to make these vids happen.
When you use the effect gels, what type and color of backdrop are you using?
Would you recommend the heat resistant gels for the COB120D? Even though they are LED lights they still generate heat. It would also be great to see how you might use the gels with a light dome or fresnel mount. I just want to avoid burning the house down.
Hi, i need some clarification on the scene where u were cleaning the gun. So your key light was a tungsten, your camera WB was set to tungsten and you used a CTB gel for the background light. Is that right?
This guy is super freakin’ helpful. Appreciated. 🤙🏻
Thanks! This video super helped
Thanks for the great tips on gels. One question I have is how you would know what color temperature your light source is in order to correct it, or are you just "eyeballing" it? Is there a light meter or camera function that would tell you this before you white balance?
Excellent vid! Thank you. Just subbed.
Hi Caleb, thanks for your videos, they are great! One question: how would you correct the magenta issue with the Andoer LED64 light? That would be very helpful for who own that light, as it is cheap and very portable. Thank you in advance, cheers, Dario :)
can you show where you placed the lights ? were they in the floor pointing up or posted up facing down. were they behind the subject, or in front..?
YOU'RE FREAKING AMAZING MAN, THANK YOU VERY MUUUCH!!! (yeah, I'm screaming in delightness kkkkk)
thanks for the tips!!
I was cruising around the net trying to gain some overarching understanding of gels and was struggling."Pfffft... This is madness. Caleb HAS to have done a video on this."
Success. Thanks man.
When you do the colored background for this do you still put a light on yourself while you are filming? Like a ring light?
For the background achieved at 06:15, what lights do you recommend using to fill the background like that? If I were to keep the frame the same and so on.
Hey, what about those awesome thick (looks like 0.5mm to 1.0mm thick) plastic "gels" that I see in a few LED light reviews? Why would I want those clunky sheets when I could have nice rigid (but flexible) pieces of plastic? I see some LED lights even have guides (or posts) so you can slide them in front of the light from the side or top. Who makes those gels? And why don't all LED lights have slides so you can insert them? I guess I could modify the lights to support them... but first I need to be able to buy them!
4:48
Caleb, when can we expect the release of your first action movie debut?
Great video. Do I need to remove the built in diffuser on my lights to use color gels (corrective/effect)? Or do you use them in conjunction with the built in diffusers?
really useful thank you
Random question, I see on film sets they have gels close to the light and on the frame. What happens when the close to the light? Is it softer and the further away it's harder? Thanjs!
AMAZING.
Found a more budget option from Rosco. Thank you for the video. It was in the subject! 👍
Great video! I’ve been wanting know about the colored backgrounds! They look awesome! What color is the backdrop paper? To shoot the colored gels
Thanks Caleb. You are one of my favorite UA-camrs. You are doing a great job and you share amazing content and information/tutorials... Wow!
I bought an SL150wii today.. Looks like a great light. Put the Gels which came with it and it was kind of burnt... Must be of cheap quality. how can we make sure that we buy good quality gels which withstand the temperature of the light. Any brand recommendations?
I use the Neewer ones on my Godox SL-60W and they haven't quite melted but they're visibly distorted from the heat.
Love this video. I'm pretty nervous about getting CTB gels for my Lowel DP 1000 watt tungsten lights. I randomly hear stories about things catching on fire or melting. Have you (or anyone) ever had experience with gels on 1000w tungstens? I've used diffusion paper and am constantly stressed about the duration of the lights being on.
Love the The short piece you show would love to see how you control the light for it !!
Thanks! I didn't do much, must a small Aputure H198 pointed at myself.
when using say a blue gel to light talent do you set up the blue lights and then set your white balance to those lights or do you set up white lights and then set your white balance? the look im going for is a very saturated blue to fill the whole room
what lights did you use with the gels for the background colors? That's EXACTLY the look i'm wanting to do for announcement videos I make for my church.
Thanks!
Any advice on white balancing for gels and stuff? Like if I'm gelling a tungsten light, should I white balance for tungsten and then add the gel after?
thanks for this great video good ideas for lighting.
Glad you enjoyed it Abraham!
Those backgrounds you lit are dope as fuck-nice work.
Hey Caleb, Since this is an older post I won't be surprised if you don't respond, but I have a question regarding RGB gels. I just got an Aputure 300D that has some barn doors and some RGB gel inserts. There's a yellow one too. The question is: How do you use those exactly because those aren't like the modifier gels you are talking about that are usually used for convert daylight to tungsten, etc. Is it possible to combine the gels on top of each other to create what you need? I.E. Take the red and the yellow and stack them to create a CTO?
Omg i love the purple pink setup. I only have a black background, that is probably not possible or?
I pick some of these up at a dollar store and they work great I even overlap them and make different colors
Can you explain, wich were your settings in the cinematic scene?
What type of background do you use? It looks so good!
Any of the 21x24" gels made by Rosco or Lee on BH cut down nicely into 4 more reasonably sized sheets and only cost $6 or $7. I've been buying those on a project to project basis depending on my needs and that's been working very well.
Great idea 😅😅 I forgot they existed! I've been looking for some good color changing bulbs.
Thanks!
Good video, thx
I was hoping you also showed how to make a poor LED look amazing 😊
cool lovely video with some really beneficial information for the next video can you talk about shooting documentaries from editing to planning to shooting plsss
can you apply colour gels on the camera lens, or is it strictly design for lights?
Thanks for the video! What is the best way to get rid of the orange glow that shows up on people's faces in a video? Are there special filters for that?
Hi Caleb! Very Informative video about gels for lights! I have just bought the Dracast S Series Daylight LED500 Video Light with 2 NP-F Battery Plates. If I am lighting for documentary interviews, which gel would create the look that I am looking for? CTB (color temperature blue)? or CTO (color temperature orange)?
Love your work bro. I have a camera question, I used a Canon c100 mark ii and I recorded in 60fps and the same on my atomos blade. when I put it in adobe, it's comimg in as 29.97i. Please HELP ME I don't know whats going on. thx
Hey Caleb!
So how about gelling a softbox like the aputure light dome? I was thinking of buying the COB 120t with the light dome, since I'll need 3000k more often. I won't have the budget to buy the daylight version as well, so I was wondering if I can gel the the bowens mount, or the inside. How would you go about that?
Thanks for all the great content! I've been watching your channel for some years now and have learned so much. You've turned me from an amateur into a pro!
is it possible to create diy gels that have multiple colors, for backround usage? For example take two gels and combine them so you get a gradient using a single light
Hi. May you please explain more (the set up in camera and show the gel (s) on the light) about that green and orange cinematic scene. I really like it. I would definitely appreciate it. Thanks
Great video Caleb. Color has been my biggest drawback. I m color blind for green, brown and red. Any suggestion how I can work around color correction tools to get correct skin tone?
Caleb, what type of background are you using, is it white? I love the gradients you created with the different colored lights on the background.
Awesome tutorial, kindly may you create a tutorial about lighting interview , the challenge in it you use redhead tungsten fixtures, you snoot some of the and gel the others with different colors
Thanks!
Nice video. Around 6:18 which brand gels are you using neewer or roscoe? Would be helpful to know thank you
Can you use CTO gels on a Godox SL60w Led continous light?
I wanna do a DIY project where I put one of these over a CRT TV so I can have colored static. Is there a way to smoothly fit one of these gels on a curved surface, like the screen of a CRT? Would heating it with a blow dryer work?
Hi! How can I use gel with a softbox ? Will the color shift show even though the diffusion layer are white ? I am using the godox 90 softbox