The easiest way to get colorful shadows is to take your portraits against a brightly painted wall. However, in the highly likely event that you don’t have access to such a room, you’ll probably need to know how to turn everyday white walls into something a lot more colorful or how can I make my white wall more interesting. If you do that, then the normally gray shadows will magically transition into something a lot more exciting, too.
In this video, photographer Gavin Hoey will show the basics of how to add color to a white wall using gels, while also keeping a touch of the real color on his model. As Gavin explains, there are many ways you can achieve the results. So, after using just a single gel, he doubles up the effect with two gels.
Adding more lights means more shadows and more color. For Gavin’s final three-flash setup, he uses the purest red, green, and blue gels he owns. Which, when overlapped, will also create a spot of white light. To enhance the effect, Gavin puts his gels over three optical projectors to create overlapping circles of colorful light and shadow.
Gavin Hoey is a freelance photographer, writer, and trainer of all things photographic. His work is regularly featured in photography magazines, websites, and videos. Gavin has a real passion for sharing his photography and Photoshop knowledge. In 2008, he started recording and uploading video tutorials to YouTube.
Timestamps and Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:44 Camera settings for the photo session
1:12 Creating shadows with white light
1:44 Creating a wash of color with a gelled flash
3:40 Single color shadow photo session
4:42 Adding more shadows with anther flash
6:29 Double color shadows photo session
7:28 Red, green and blue gels
8:14 Flash settings for white light from RGB lights
9:09 Portrait session with red, green and blue gels
9:58 Outro
Watch David Bergman’s “Shadow Colors” video:
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