A cheap and effective way of holding gels to your speedlights is to use Velcro. However attaching the Velcro directly on to the piece of gel will reduce it's life and waste the Velcro when you have to replace it. Not that gels are expensive by any means, but I save where I can.
I did not invent this and saw this at one of the strobist meetups I attended, taking from the idea of gel holders like this Rosco kit that you can buy, you can DIY the same thing with business card sleeves.
Simply get a pack of these and cut away. Try to match the area of the flash so that there are no extra material on the sides in case you want to use it with a dome diffuser. Stick some Velcro onto the business card holder that you've just cut out. You can even use a dome diffuser to hold down the gel holder, make sure the material is not that thick that you start to warp your dome diffuser and lose the tight fit. There, you have yourself a DIY gel holder that you can use again and again until it gets to destroyed and you can afford to just toss it and make another one. Get a sheet of the colors you use more often like CTO and window green and just try to score some Rosco or Lee sample packs for all the other funky colors.
Conversely, the SB-900 comes with a gel holder that's nice and compact. You're suppose to use it with the gels the SB-900 came with so it can do auto WB but I don't see why you can't just use it with regular gels that you've cut up. Of course, if you do not want to be ghetto like me, this Rosco kit is a nice, elegant solution.
I did not invent this and saw this at one of the strobist meetups I attended, taking from the idea of gel holders like this Rosco kit that you can buy, you can DIY the same thing with business card sleeves.
Simply get a pack of these and cut away. Try to match the area of the flash so that there are no extra material on the sides in case you want to use it with a dome diffuser. Stick some Velcro onto the business card holder that you've just cut out. You can even use a dome diffuser to hold down the gel holder, make sure the material is not that thick that you start to warp your dome diffuser and lose the tight fit. There, you have yourself a DIY gel holder that you can use again and again until it gets to destroyed and you can afford to just toss it and make another one. Get a sheet of the colors you use more often like CTO and window green and just try to score some Rosco or Lee sample packs for all the other funky colors.
Conversely, the SB-900 comes with a gel holder that's nice and compact. You're suppose to use it with the gels the SB-900 came with so it can do auto WB but I don't see why you can't just use it with regular gels that you've cut up. Of course, if you do not want to be ghetto like me, this Rosco kit is a nice, elegant solution.
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