Light Painting Fly Fishing Gear

It’s been over 3 years since I enjoyed Fly Fishing. As much as I love photography, I was not a happy camper away from physical activities and hobbies, which I slowly abandoned in the past due to life circumstances. Life is back on a tight schedule and wonders of time management that free up some time to indulge in life’s pleasures.

I threw together a modest naturmort that consists of my main gear and the flies (I tie my flies myself btw).

The image below is a composite of 4 in-camera light painting shots.



Tight Lines!

Rosco to Lee

I have about a couple of hundred different filters available for light painting. Needless to say, I never use them all. Some are for the backup (the essentials), some were a mistake (I mix and match gels to achieve the desired effect that unfortunately doesn't always work).

I am in need of a few specific filters for my current work, and since I moved to Ottawa, I wasn’t able to make a contact with a good Rosco dealer.

I was presenting for the RA Photo Club here in Ottawa, which is the largest and the oldest club in the National Capital.

People left a couple of comments below the presentation's announcement here:
http://www.raphotoclub.ca/smf/index.php?topic=1186.0

Going through those comments, I actually learned about the shop that carries entertainment lights and equipment. When I showed up, I was disappointed, because they had just a few Lee filters. Maybe a dozen or so. I was given a promise that any of the filters could be ordered though.

And indeed, just as one commenter mentioned, they have tons of old wrinkled filters in the shop. Haven’t asked how much they sell those for, but I suspect it would be peanuts.

I went to Lee’s website and tried to identify the filters I’d need.

Here is some info that might be useful:

Rosco catalog (one can be lost for hours in it):
http://www.rosco.com/catalogs/US_catalog48.pdf

Rosco has conversion table here on this page:
http://www.rosco.com/UK/technotes/filters/lee_equiv.asp

Now, that’s where I got confused. When I go to the Lee’s site and enter the Rosco gels into the conversion box, some of the Lee values do not match those quoted in the Rosco conversion table. Here is the gel comparator: http://www.leefilters.com/go.php

Lee’s website has the most impressive java swatch ball. See for yourself: http://www.leefilters.com/architectural/products/colours/
You can download their swatch ball to your desktop.

It also has a mired shift calculator here, which I found cool:
http://www.leefilters.com/go.php

And I absolutely love Lee’s Gobos!