Any Colour You Like [day 132]

Another night playing with fire, smoke, and flashes, this time with even more unexpected results.

During my first experiments I used only one, unfiltered, strobe, and made the smoke blue changing the white balance in post.
This time I really wanted to use gels to add colour to main light, and add a second light with a different colour, and get a mix of them on the smoke.

So I got the citronella candle back on a black card on the table, added a blue gel to a Yongnuo flash and put it on the right of the candle, and added a green gel to a Nissin flash and put it on the left of the scene. I then focused on the candle wick and burned it. I then stopped down my aperture for extended depth of field, and did some test shots to balance light from the two coloured strobes, their direction and range.

I expected the smoke to appear partially blue, and partially green, but what I sees surprised me: the red light of the candle mixed with the blue and green light from the strobes couloured the smoke of the colours of the rainbow!

The colours were so good that post production was really easy. The only problem was smoke. The room was full of smoke - cough, cough!

Shot on Canon 550D, lit with a Yongnuo YN560 III flash with a blue gel and with a Nissin Di866 II flash with a green gel, both triggered with Yongnuo RF603C II. Light cones were controlled using a Flashbender as a snoot and a diy cardboard snoot. Edit in Lightroom Classic CC.

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