Derrel
Mr. Rain Cloud
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Here is an iPhone snap of the actual the gel...I got this gel USED, back in 1987 (!!!!) from a theatre lighting rental place...it was a "junker" back then. I cut it down and deliberately put the burned-off "white spot" off-center, and trimmed it to fit the diffuser-holder so that the white,slightly-hotter spot area would be off-center...as you might be able to see, the gel has faded from use...it's not perfectly even in density.
It almost broke my heart to cut up the old warhorse, but these people needed these shots FAST, for an 8 AM departure to the beauty pageant the very next MORNING, so I wanted to create SOOC images that would be ready to go as soon as I could get home and download the card to my Mac, without me having to do ANY post work, whatsoever. It might be a bit hokey, but I learned to use gels back in the 1980's, and I am NOT a very good post-processor and fake-background-creator in PS...
As you can see, the white area is where the gel HAD been used, since 1987, on a Speedotron M-11 head, with its exposed 150-Watt, HOT quartz lamp having caused the white damage, and having faded the gel...I cut it so that the darker, less-faded periphery would give me a bit of a built-in gradient, and so that one part would allow more "white light" thru. Not much, but "enough" to make a perfect,lighter spot, which I could aim behind the girl.
As you can see, the white area is where the gel HAD been used, since 1987, on a Speedotron M-11 head, with its exposed 150-Watt, HOT quartz lamp having caused the white damage, and having faded the gel...I cut it so that the darker, less-faded periphery would give me a bit of a built-in gradient, and so that one part would allow more "white light" thru. Not much, but "enough" to make a perfect,lighter spot, which I could aim behind the girl.
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