Amazing pictures enclosed...how does someone get that kind of image?

Question

http://www.lostamerica.com/urbex.html

i mean the ones with red, greens, etc.

Do they use special filters? special lights? photoshopped? or any combination of those...How'd they make those pictures and what do you think of them?

Thanks.

the terms they use are confusing and doesn't say how..maybe that's the art of it.

Answer 1

gels are coloured clear plastic things, you can put them on flashes or lights, cellophane is a cheap type - my english lets me down here.

a yellow halo light at 3200k becomes daylight - 5600k if you put 2 1/2 blue gels over the light

the fotog is using a tripod, film or a dslr canon, cable release and firing a strobe or flash with a coloured gel on it.

the techniques are simple to a schooled photographer, the clever part is the vision to see the image before making it so that they look good........this is an excelent example of made images not taken "pictures"

they are made in preproduction ---- the idea, look, final image, and the technique to do so is formulated in the head,

the shoot involves using terchnique and vision to record the images onto a medium film and digi for those shoots,

there is very little post production or photoshopping because the images were well concieved and well executed - done in camera, hence theres little need for enhancing and no need for "fixing" the images

i like them as the conception and execution is strong - good image making requiring little computer photography

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Answer 2

I agree that most appear t be ordinary spot lights with colored gels.

Have you ever seen those Xmas tree displays where the entire tree changes colors. It is a simple spot light with a wheel rotating in front of it. The wheel is a disk with holes in it, containing sheets of different colored acetate.

Answer 3

Could it be...

"Night,full moon, dark interior, blue and red-gelled strobe flash. Canon 20D."

...as described under the photo? This would be FAR easier that adding the color in Photoshop.

Answer 4

A "gel" is a plastic film that can be placed over a strobe to diffuse the light or to give it a color cast. The shots you've linked to are simply shot with strobes that have been "gelled."

Are you gellin'?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Check out http://strobist.blogspot.com for more info on how to do stuff like that.