p.1 #1 · Any experience with Rosco Color Correction Kit?
I'm a beginner and I'm experimenting with color correction on my flash for indoor shots. I got a Roscolux Swatch Book from Amazon, I played with those samples a little and I know what I want in terms of colors, but the swatch book pieces are very small. So I found this Rosco Color Correction Kit also on Amazon, but I cannot find out what those filters are made of! All the online photo vendors seem to have the exact same description, which doesn't help me at all. I want to basically cut some pieces out to fasten to the flash head (with a rubber band or whatever). If the filters in the kit are rigid, then I guess I can't use them for what I want.
p.1 #2 · Any experience with Rosco Color Correction Kit?
When it comes to gels, you'll be fine with any major manufacturer: Rosco, Bogen, Lee, Gam. They're all made from essentially the same materials and will just vary in availability, individual color/material selections and sizes.
Gels will never be rigid - those will only be glass filters which are intended to attach to camera lenses in matteboxes. Lighting gels are always flexible and able to be cut to size/shape.
p.1 #3 · Any experience with Rosco Color Correction Kit?
color correction kits consist of varying degrees of filters used specifically on common lightsources we use
CTO, color temperature orange gels, which take daylight and turns it into a tungsten like lightsource. Expect these in full CTO, half, and quarter. Maybe even an 1/8th
You'll get some CTB, Blue gels, which take Tungsten light sources and match them to daylight. Again, full, half, quarter, 1/8th
Then you'll get PlusGreen (green gels) and MinusGreens (magenta gels). PlusGreens match daylight to flourescent, and Minus will match flouro to daylight.
You may even get combos, gels which take tungsten to flourescent, or vice versa.
And finally, you might see some ND filters, to reduce light output.
That's a general color correction kit. Also, you may see different names for the filters. CTO's are sometimes called amber, straw, and referred to as such. Half straw, quarter straw.
p.1 #4 · Any experience with Rosco Color Correction Kit?
Thanks a lot for the info. I was intending to use those over a flash gun to keep the flash output close to the color of the background light. I figured I would need CTO and Plusgreen and some fractions of these two. There are plenty of funky colors as well in the swatch book so I might use those as well later when I get a remote trigger of some sort and a second flash. That's still ahead
