Split Gels

[steventaylor]

Hi

 

I was thinking of using some split Yellow/Light Green gels for Leaf Breakup gobos. Can anyone tell me if I need to tape the join of the gels or will a small overlap be OK. These are on 650W Quartet profiles.

Can anyone give me an opinion on how effective split gels are in such a situation.

 

Thanks

 

 

Steve

[david.elsbury]

Play with it! You won't get a well-defined edge anyway... do whatever looks good on stage (unless of course the audience can actually see the surface of the gel, in which case you may wish to make it as tidy as possible)

 

Edit: and don't make the mistake of using cyc silk (Colour and frost in the same filter)- gobos won't come through, as it's a frost

 

David

[chris_c-lighting]

I have experimented with patching gel together before and can get amazing results,HT clear tape-used for scrollers also,does work well

If you have a bit of budget though I would recommend the rosco colourisers/polarisers

they look really good with a metal gobo behind them.