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I have an upcoming studio shoot upcoming in a bit over week. Before then, I hope to be able to mess with the following and optimize it days before the shoot. I'm looking for advice as this is something I have not done before.
General Gear
5D IV or R6 (if the R6 gets here in time)
2x AD200 Pro
Various 10' x 20' Backdrops (a greenish, a reddish, a tannish)
47' Nicefoto Softbox & 27" Nicefoto Softbox
Various lightstands and tripods
The shoot will be a mix of portraits and full body shots for dancers. As an absolute fallback, I can use any of the backdrops as is without fail. What I'd really like to do is either take the green one (which is a fairy/spring light green) and make it more of a Christmas green or take the red one (which is a rusty red/black) and make it more of a Christmas red.
Or I could take the tan one, which is generally light and uniformly textured, and take it either direction.
I have a multitude of Magmod attachments and also the gel sets.
My goal is to use the 47' softbox as a key light slightly to the subject's left. What I'm contemplating is how to gel to background while avoiding the following:
- Having the gear in the photo (I cannot place a lightstand behind the subjects as they will be in various dance poses and moving, etc)
- Throwing red or green color on the subjucts themselves
- Creating uneven fill or creating shadows on the backdrop
I don't have the right gear to fix the strobe above the subject, although I might could make something work.
Something occurred to me that I hadn't yet considered, seeing as how using gels for this effect are typically for traditional portraits, I'm not sure I can successfully make this work. Even if sitting the gel to the side and I am able to perfectly avoid the three above issues, I will still and always will have the issue of the full body poses. Even if the background is correctly gelled, there will always be the same colored backdrop underneath where the subject is standing and it will not match the backdrop where gelled.
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