Photography Lighting Effects

Video Transcript

"Hello, this is Mark Bowers, from bowersphotography.com in Utah, and I'd like to talk about special lighting effects. I have some plastic gels. They're theater gels that I bought, and what I did is I wrapped them in a circle around a flash tube and just used tape and duct tape to put them on when I use them on low powered flash tubes. Now I repeat; low power. This is only two hundred watts. They won't melt the plastic to the tube. More than three or four hundred watts the plastic will start to melt to your flash tubes. Then you'll end up with green flash tubes and you don't want that. But I've made up a bunch of different colors that I use; greens, yellows, blues, browns, and different colors, and I, basically the way I use them is I turn them around so that they can flash against the background and create colors on my different backgrounds and give me a lot more variety of backgrounds for my customers. I would like to show you a little bit about special lighting techniques that I used on on this automobile. It's just an old car that I found down the street. It needed some light to bring the car to life. The headlights were just totally gone, and some of the the grillwork and the and the hood work was just, it was pretty old and beat up, and so I chose a day in the late late afternoon when the sunlight was was good but the headlights were still bad. And so what I did is I came in with some halogen spots to light up these headlights. This is a little halogen spot that I bought from the hardware store, and I basically turned it on and hit the headlights with the with the spotlight as I was photographing it, and it just brought the lights to life and it it made the the photograph just come alive."