 Everybody's going back to here and in this video, I'm going to show you how you can spice up your portrait lighting using colored gels. All right, let's get started. So in this video, we're using studio strobes, but you can also use speed lights with a variety of different modifiers. So first let's start off with speed lights. If you're a speed light user, there's a Rosco gel kit that you can get at B&H Photo relatively affordably. And then you could use a bunch of different colored gels with your speed light. Now you can use your speed light with a variety of different modifiers. The easiest one to use it with is possibly an umbrella. Now what I'm using is I have a Godox in the studio and also I have an Einstein with a reflector. And so what that allows me to do is just to tape the gel to the reflector using gaffer's tape. And that's probably the easiest and most affordable and quickest way to attach your gels to your studio strobes. Now once you have your light gel, you can use it an umbrella or a softbox or a beauty dish. For the beauty dish, all I did was tape the gel inside the beauty dish just using this gaffer's tape. So now you can use these gels as an accent, so maybe for a hair light. You can use it on the background to give you different complementary colors. Or you can also use it as a fill light or as a key light. Now let's talk about using complementary colors. Now you've probably heard of using orange in the highlights and teal in the shadows. That's a popular kind of effect for video. But you can also reverse that. So you could use teal or a blue as a key light and orange in the shadows. So feel free to experiment and flip these different color combinations around. Now also you can gel a white backdrop or a gray backdrop. I'm using gray in this, but you can experiment with whatever you have. And then just try to use some complementary colors. So if you're shooting a person, you might want to start with a blue background color. But then you can always use red or purple. It really depends on the wardrobe and the effects that you want to create. But it's really simple to do. And really like I said, you could start easily with a speed light. It's very affordable to do that. Or you can pick up a gel kit at B&H Photo and you can start experimenting. Like I said, some colors that work well are blue and orange, but really feel free to start with maybe 10 different colors and experiment. There's also software that you can get that allows you to experiment with the gels before you even head into the studio. I'll link to that software just below this video. Now if you found these tips helpful, give me a thumbs up for this video. And if you have any comments or questions, you can post them down below. If you want to learn more about working with gels and light painting, I'll also put a link below this video as well. Anyway, thanks for watching this video. Give me a thumbs up and I'll see you in the next one.