Expensive coloured led vs DIY

I looove buying new cool gear for my photography, I’m not gonna lie. But! To show you that you can create good stuff without spending thousands of dollars, I’ll show you how I made this photo with just two flashlights, a pink balloon and some blue plastic i had at home.

This photo is made up by three photos and some glitter overlays.

The only two lightsources I used were these, flashlights and coloured transparent plastic/rubber.

I did however use a DSLR camera for this, if you want to try something similar with your phone you
may need brighter lights since the phone cameras aren’t as good as expensive cameras in low light. Also, depending on what phone you have and settings on it it might be hard to capture the different coloured areas perfectly.

I tied the flashlights about 1 meter apart and positioned my face between them. The camera is on some boxes on the table to the left.

And the fairies were shot in my studio with natural light and me jumping to create movement in hair and clothes. And then I edited it in Photoshop, I will make tutorials in the future but i didn’t make one for this, but basically i removed the colour, inverted the image (so the dark parts become light and vice versa) and added colour, wings and “glitter”

DIY tools and tricks can work, but it’s way more work to figure out what and how to use. For adding coloured light to small scenes like this one, my personal favourites are these led lights i got from amazon. They are not much bigger than a smartphone so you can bring them with you even if you just carry a small bag. You can set them to any colour and adjust the brightness from really low (like in this photo to very bright. They also have clever “arms” that makes it easy to secure them in place in many ways.

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