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Inside the Factory: What Pro Lighting Gels Are Actually Made Of (And Why It Changes How I Use Them)
Color has burned me before. Early in my commercial career, I walked into an editorial shoot confident in my gel choices, only to realize halfway through the day that the reds I was using were shifting warm under heat from the fixture. The prints came back muddy. The client was patient, but I was not. That experience sent me down a rabbit hole of understanding not just how gels behave, but how they are actually built.