I've just tried simulating fire light in my yesterday shot. Not finding any tips or tutorials, I went my own way...
I used my speedlight with a CTO 85 gel, and the white balance of the camera set on Cloudy. I bounced the flash on a near white wall.
In editing, I tried to give some randomness to the light using a Vibrance adjustment layer, and masking it. I created the mask using the Clouds filter and adding some blurring.
Anyway, here's the result:
Do you have any tips or any methods for doing the same I was trying? Are there better ways (I'm sure there are...) to simulate fire light?
I’m no pro and I don’t know if the following will help but tried to create an aged look to some ordinary sheet music which was printed on normal white a4 paper. Seen here http://365project.org/darrensmith/365/2014-01-13
I shot the photo in the evening with normal (bulb) room lighting and WB set to daylight which gave a muted orange look.
In PS (elements 11) I tinkered with the temperature and settled at 5200 (daylight 5500).
I added some slight vignetting in the guided mode of elements 11, vignetting effects.
@agima Thank you. I guess you're right about the quality of the light. I found direct flash was too hard, but maybe I should have played with the flash exposure compensation. Well, next time...
@agima I use it mostly off-camera, triggering it with the built-in flash. In this case it was off-camera, at the left side of the subject, and bounced off the wall in the north side. I had little space, so both flash and wall were very near the subject
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I shot the photo in the evening with normal (bulb) room lighting and WB set to daylight which gave a muted orange look.
In PS (elements 11) I tinkered with the temperature and settled at 5200 (daylight 5500).
I added some slight vignetting in the guided mode of elements 11, vignetting effects.
I think you have done a wonderful job. My only real coming it that the light is too soft.
Light from a fire tends to be a hard light and case stronger shadows.
Either way job well done.
@darrensmith Nice processing
@agima Thank you. I guess you're right about the quality of the light. I found direct flash was too hard, but maybe I should have played with the flash exposure compensation. Well, next time...
What speedlite do you have/did you use? @rafesmar