When I was in undergrad, I went to the USITT conference a few times and collected all sorts of free goodies.  (I once had a teacher tell me that you can never have enough pieces of plastic with holes in it, especially when they’re free, and he was right.) 

 One of the things I picked up were swatch books of gel.  When I got updated books later, I almost threw the old ones away, but then I realized they were useful.  I’ve used diffusion for all sorts of window panes and some gel for mirrors and some for a shower curtain in scale and all sorts of random model things. 

 I’ve also used gel swatch books with my mag lights to light models when I take pictures of them.  It makes for some nice, moody shots of models that look great in portfolios. It's also a great way of testing how different lighting will react on your set, so if you know the some of the effects the lighting designer intends to create, you can double check to make sure they will read well on your set.

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