Colour Gels - The Lovegrove Studio Collection
Bring your studio pictures to life
with the Lovegrove studio collection
Here at the Lovegrove studio, Damien Lovegrove and his
team have put together a collection of gels from literally hundreds of
candidates. Each one has been chosen because of the mood or character it
evokes in a digital image. The way a gel photographs is often very
different to it’s visual appearance. All the assessing was done using
digital files straight from camera. The gels were photographed
illuminating a grey background whilst a model posed in the foreground to
give a true skin tone reference.
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The Studio
Collection contains:
38 sheets of gel 12” x
12” (30cm x 30cm) in size. These comprise of 22 vibrant hues and 16
pastel shades.
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The gels were simply clipped to a flash head with a 60 degree reflector and the power of the flash head was adjusted to reveal a range of luminance values with each colour. “I’m amazed at just how much control there is
with each gel” says Damien. “With the background light
switched off the
background was completely black and with the light on half
power without a gel it was pure white. This gave me full control of the
light density and is key to being effective with gels”.
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Scintillating Colours
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With such vibrant colours to hand, it is vital to be in
tune with
subtle shade and hue changes. A small hue shift can have an
enormous
effect on the mood a picture evokes and putting together a
great
collection of gels has been like creating a paint collection
for houses.
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It’s easy to see colours that work when you are looking at
real photographs rather than gel swatches.
The Lovegrove team has done the hard work so you can enjoy creating beautifully lit masterpieces to transform your clients homes.
Sets of 8 croc clips to keep your gels in place are also available.
Damien's Technique: Recreate the images taken in the grid above using Damien's step-by-step technique. Download our PDF here.
Colour Reference Guide: Download, print out and make your own notes with our handy colour
reference guide. Download it here.
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