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iPhone Apps for Photographers: Strobox

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Sometimes browsing in the iTunes music store for good apps is hit or miss. Actually let me rephrase that – I find it’s always hit or miss. there’s a lot of apps listed in the category ‘photography’ that may not belong there.

There’s apps with pictures of sexy girls (not photography IMHO) and apps for editing and post processing photos on or taken by the iPhone and then there’s some great photographer tool style apps.
That latter group is my favorite and also where the Strobox app fits in. An app for photographers.
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Using Red Gel to Boost Greens in the Background

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I did a quick proof of concept test with my gels and SB600 today – it was pretty cool.

The thought behind this is: If we use a orange gel over a flash or strobe to add orange to a light on the subject to balance out the orange sun light on the background what we are also doing is using orange on our subject to add blue (orange’s compliment) to the background.

If that is the case – flip your thinking around and don’t use a gel to match your subject’s white balance to the background – bring out a color in the background by casting it’s compliment onto your subject! I wanted to bring out the spring green in the trees by using a red (green’s compliment) color cast on my subject. Read on to see how it went. Here’s a hint – it worked 😉

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Filed Under: Flashes, Strobes & Lighting Tagged With: complimentary colors, gel, green, lighting diagram, lighting setup, nikon, Nikon SJ-1 Gel, proof of concept, red, rosco, sb600, strobe

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