Creative
Color Gels: Adding Creative Color to Your Portraits
Color gels transform white flash into colored light, opening a world of creative possibilities that neutral lighting can’t touch. From subtle color accents to full neon-drenched portraits, gels give you control over the color of light itself — not just what you can adjust in post-processing. Gels Basics Gels are thin sheets of colored transparent material (traditionally theatrical lighting gel) placed in front of a light source. They filter out certain wavelengths, transmitting only the desired color.