gels and lights and stuff, and more stuff

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9 Feb 2012 - 8:20 PM

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cameracat (e2 Member)

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9 Feb 2012 - 8:44 PM

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The other lights are cancelling it out, Probably aided and abeted by your WB.

You could try dumbing the other lights down a stop or two, What colour is the background...? That might make a change also, Especially if its the grey one you mention.

GarethRobinson

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9 Feb 2012 - 9:17 PM

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Without seeing a setup of what your doing I will take a few guesses.

Your key light is spilling onto the background and over powering the background lights.
So use your softbox with a grid and skim the light across the subject, that way the key light is not hitting the background.
Or move the model further away from the background and bring your softbox really close to the subject ie just out of the frame and no more.

If your grey background is not a darker mid grey you will end up with pastel colours, similar to using gels on a white background you get pastels. Darker grey or black will give you good well saturated backgrounds.
Also try using a few more layers of gels.

Hope that helps

stratocaster72

9 Feb 2012 - 9:37 PM

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Thanks all

It's a dark grey background.
Metered ok at f8 and f9 (looks nice slightly darker).
Main light is high at that, so feathered it more to keep it angled off the background.
The little flash with the gel is looking more green more that I've put it at it's widest zoom, and backed it off a little.
Might try doubling up the gels, that sounds like a good idea

Cheers

stratocaster72

9 Feb 2012 - 9:44 PM

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Yeah that worked, it was too high on power, simple little thing fixed it.
Normally I like solid white or black backgrounds for studio (or a blue spot) so this sort of faded light across one side is new to me lol, looking good now