Shooting Gelled Portraits with Profoto B1X

Earlier in the week I welcomed model Shannon into the Clifton Cameras studio to shoot some gelled portraits with the Profoto B1X kit.

I’ve never shot with gels before but I'm a big fan of Neo-noir styled images, vivid colours, neon etc in my own personal work (@craigpittsphoto) so I was excited to be able to experiment with creating artistic portraits using Profoto’s starter gel set.

I kept the lighting setups fairly simple; a two light setup using one Profoto B1X gelled with the OCF Beauty Dish attached to it and the other Profoto B1X gelled with an OCF Stripbox attached to it.

I played around switching light positions and alternating with which light/modifier would be my main light and ended up with some awesome results which you can see below.

You can check out more of Shannon over on her Instagram page @xx_shannon_love_xx

I also made a BTS video over of the shoot which you can watch below. I plan on making a lot more content over on YouTube in 2019 so stay tuned for that and consider subscribing to my channel if you want to see more photography related content!

Cheers,

Craig

In today's video, I show you a behind the scenes look at a studio shoot with the Profoto B1X kit using coloured gels to create artistic looking studio portraits. All the images were shot on location at Clifton Cameras studio in Dursley, Gloucestershire and were shot using the Canon 5Ds with the Sigma 85mm f1.4 ART Lens and lit using the Profoto B1X kit.