Photography: Gel Filters

Sam dropped by yesterday, having been to a theatre tech expo recently, and gave me a swatch of Lee gel filter samples to play with. Gels are usually used for lighting effects, but I decided to play around with the camera to see what effects I could get.

The following were all shot on a Canon Ixus 400. All photos were taken indoors on Cloudy setting with Macro, no overhead artificial light. No photomanipulation apart from rotating 90° CW and resizing to 600x800.


Filter: Lee Gel Filter #052 Light Lavender
Exposure: 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 7.4 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
ISO: 400


Filter: Lee Gel Filter #793 Vanity Fair
Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 7.4 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
ISO: 400


Filter: Lee Gel Filter #720 Durham Daylight Frost
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 7.4 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
ISO: 400


Filter: Lee Scrim Filter #270
Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 7.4 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
ISO: 400


Filter: Lee Gel Filter #075 Evening Blue
Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 7.4 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
ISO: 400


Filter: Lee Gel Filter #410 Opal Frost
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 7.4 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
ISO: 400


Filter: Lee Gel Filter #228 Brushed Silk
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 7.4 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
ISO: 400


Filter: Lee Gel Filter #004 Medium Bastard Amber (yes, it really is called that!!)
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 7.4 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
ISO: 400


Filter: Lee Gel Filter #207 C.T. Orange +.3
Exposure: 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 7.4 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
ISO: 400


Filter: Lee Gel Filter #156 Chocolate
Exposure: 0.167 sec (1/6)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 7.4 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
ISO: 400

I think I shall be mounting these gels in card frames to make it easier to mount them in some form of lens cap to fix over the front of the camera lens. I think I'm going to have lots of fun experimenting with these!