![]() Glycerin-free lubricant can taste bitter. Because of their sugar content, they’re also known to contribute to yeast infections. Although these products have their perks, they dry out quickly. Consįlavored or warming lubricants often contain glycerin. Glycerin-free products are less likely to cause vaginal irritation. They typically don’t stain sheets, either. Prosīoth types of water-based lubricant are cost-effective, easy to find, and safe to use with condoms. They come in two varieties: with glycerin, which has a slightly sweet taste, or without glycerin. Multiple sheets can be overlapped.Water-based lubricants are the most common. Large gel sheets are available that can be used to gel softboxes or beauty dishes. It is easiest to gel the 7" metal bowl reflector of your strobe or gel the front of barn doors. In the studio gels are usually used to color backgrounds, add warmth or coolness to the light on a subject vs the background, or emulate colored light from things like neon tubes on the background and/or subject. See the manual for which chips to use to set the WB. Sailorblue - Using a DIY Plastic White Card for WBĮven better if you use Lightroom/ACR or On1, shoot a X-Rite ColorChecker color target and do a full color correction as your first step then set the WB from the color neutral ColorChecker chips. Shoot a neutral color target and set a custom in camera WB or use that image to WB your images during post. All you can do is replace the flash tube. ![]() You will never be able to get rid of the gel that melted onto the flash tube. ![]() If the gel is touching the surface of the flash tube it can easily melt onto the flash tube. You can buy lighting gets in rolls and if a roll is not wide enough I butt the edges together and use scotch tape to make the seam. I generally do not gel softboxes but when I do, I also put the gels on the outside of the softbox. The warm light made the model visually “come forward” from the background or the set and the warmer strip of light in the center of the softbox just enhanced that effect on the models face and breasts. He obviously wasn’t doing this to color correct the light but for cosmetic and psychological perception reasons. This was back towards the end of the era when film was the dominant photographic medium. The outer thirds of the long side of the softbox were covered with Rosco 1/4 CTO or 1/4 Straw gel (depending on the skin color of the model, and the inner half was covered with a 1/2 CTO or Straw gel. His key or hero light was a Chimera Lighting Super Pro XL, a 54x72-inch softbox and he’d gel it with two layers of gel. He had a pretty ingenious trick for lighting skin that I had not seen before. He did a lot of the preliminary photographs of models the magazine was considering for Playmates. I once was acquainted with a contract photographer for Playboy Enterprises. ![]() Using a Godox AD200 with round head makes gelling easier as you can use the magnetic holder. Umbrella softboxes may need you to put a slit in the gel to get round the shaft. Basically you just put the sheet in where it will fit. Here's a video showing a softbox being colour gelled. Where would you put the sheet of gel in a strip soft box as a coloured rim? In front of the bulb against the first diffusion layer? Now that I think more on this I guess I was thinking of more creative situations (as you're right, colour correction would be in mixed kelvin situations). You can buy a sheet of gel that will cover a beauty dish and you can stuff a sheet of gel inside a softbox, 100% coverage isn't vital.īut if you have strobes in a studio why do you need to colour correct them? You are overpowering the ambient and, unless you have really cheap strobes, their colour temperature will be very close to each other. I see that you can buy gels that cover the outer surface of a reflector, however how gel a beauty dish or softbox? I've seen some people use heat resistant gels and wrap them around the bulb, though you can't cover it 100% in this way). Bought a couple of strobes and trying to figure out how to gel them (eg colour correcting) when using a softbox or reflector.
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