Sunday, September 23

Color Correcting with Gels

Ever wonder what those gel sheets in the advanced lighting kits are for?  They help "fix" lights to work with ambient or background light.  Basically, if room lights have a different color (or, more technically, temperature) than the lamps in the kit (such as daylight [more blue] or fluorescent [more green / orange] the gels can adjust the lamps to match. 

You can find out more from this Lowel EDU page:

http://www.lowel.com/edu/light_controls/gels.html 

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