RGB Light Painted Portraits - Charlotte, NC

I just got the new Syl Arena book, The Speedliter's Handbook.  It is an awesome read.  If you want to learn about how to use your speedlite or using off camera flash, this is the book for you.  It is well written with tons of examples, tips and ideas.  And that is how I came upon this idea.

Syl had a cool example of blending gelled speedlites.  He had 3 lights all pointed toward a corner.  A red on one wall, a green on another and blue one along the ceiling.  When they flashed, of course you could see the three distinct colors, but where they all intersected was an explosion of colors.  Pretty cool idea, huh?  Nothing super technical.  Anyone can do this. 


Last night we had one of our CPMG Coffee & Strobes Meetups hosted by Scott Stallings, our Strobist Guru.  I set up a very simple triangle of bare gelled strobes and here are the results.

I am really pleased with how they came out.  These images are pretty much straight out of the camera with some minor editing in LR3.  It was a lot of fun.  We shot for well over an hour in a 8 ft space bouncing lights around and having a blast.