Studio Lighting
Creative Gels for Studio Photography: Beyond Color Correction
Creative Gels for Studio Photography: Beyond Color Correction I’ve watched photographers treat gels like an afterthought—a pack of color correction filters tossed in a kit bag. That’s a missed opportunity. Creative gels aren’t corrective tools; they’re storytelling instruments. Used deliberately, they separate competent studio work from memorable imagery. Let me share exactly how I approach them. The Difference Between Correction and Creation Color correction gels (CTO, CTB, and their variants) solve practical problems: they balance tungsten lights to daylight, or vice versa.