Gelling your flash

11 years 10 months ago #235571 by Camera Diva
For those of you who gel your flash, if you are shooting a wedding with tungsten lighting and CTO (color temperature orange) gel, how much of the filter are you using? Will you let some ambient light in or are you using full gel and keeping all the ambient out. When you go with full are you changing your WB setting?

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11 years 10 months ago #235590 by Stealthy Ninja
Any event I shoot I shoot will gels according to the ambient light (or else you might as well just shoot the flash daylight colour and be done with it).

I usually set my camera to manual. At least 1/60 for shutter speed (more if I can) and go about 1 stop underexposed. This lets in some of the ambient light and allows my flash to fill in the rest.

This always looks better as you can actually see where the people are AND your photos don't look like those the guests were shooting (Auto mode with flash). :X
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11 years 10 months ago #235643 by Missy J
If you go full, from my experience it chews up much of your flash power, I'd stick with 1/4 depending on how much ambient light, this at least maintains the warmth of the ambient better.


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