Colour Correction Filters - More Stage Lighting Gels

Lighting Design - No Comments - May, 9 at 1:40 pm

Colour correction lighting filters are an easy solution to achieve a standardised white light. Following on from Colour Temperature …, this article looks at colour correction filters and their uses in lighting design, both practical and artistic.

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Colour Temperature

Lighting Design - No Comments - April, 30 at 5:22 pm

Good stage lighting makes use of coloured light to create mood or depict the lighting in a specific location and time of day. This article gives you an introduction to colour temperature, why it is important and it’s relevance in stage lighting design.

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Backlight - What, Why, How and Where?

Lighting Design - No Comments - April, 25 at 11:37 am

Backlight is an important element in 3-point stage lighting that can be neglected on small shows in schools and drama clubs. So what is it, why should you use backlighting and what effect does it have in different stage lighting situations?

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Freelance Stage Lighting Technician - The Inside Story

Learn Stage Lighting - 5 Comments - April, 14 at 7:05 pm

The modern stage lighting industry is extremely changeable. The call for lighting techs goes up and down like a truss rigged on elastic, it’s what they call a flexible labour market. So, production companies rely on freelance technicians ( freelancers, freeloaders [insert term of abuse here]). Becoming a freelance lighting tech seems like a good deal from the outside and this article takes a look at what it takes to be a freelancer and the ups and downs of the self employed lighting technician.

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Your First Lighting Design How To – A crash course in 10 steps

Lighting Design - No Comments - April, 6 at 7:00 pm

On Stage Lighting recently had a number of questions on doing a first lighting design. If you have been given the job of lighting designer for your next school play, this crash course will help you learn the basics of the lighting design process. It won’t help you learn all the detail of how to do a complex lighting design, but the 10 steps will get you started.

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DMX Dip Switch Calculator - Work It Out For Yourself!

Stage Lighting Tools - No Comments - March, 31 at 8:19 am

Many intelligent lighting fixtures and effects use LCD displays and complex menu functions to allow setting to be changed. Although now less common, even on cheaper fixtures, setting DIP switches to a binary DMX address is still required. But do you really need a Dip Switch Calculator?
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ETC Source Four PARNel - To Buy or Not To Buy?

Lighting Equipment - No Comments - March, 20 at 9:50 am

In 2009 it will 10 years since the award winning ETC Source Four PARNel was launched. A interesting “wavy” lens was added to the original S4 PAR casing to produce a hybrid of the traditional PAR can and a stage lighting fresnel. Since then, the PARnel has been popular but hasn’t sent all it’s older relatives to stage lighting heaven (or hell - in the case of the Strand Patt 45).
Why not…?
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HTP vs LTP - Lighting Desk Basics 5

Learn Stage Lighting - 2 Comments - March, 12 at 9:52 am

One of elements of learning intelligent lighting control, is grasping the difference in the two ways a lighting desk treats control channels. The concept of Highest Takes Precedence (HTP) and Latest Takes Precedence (LTP) is actually very simple but is often misunderstood and explaining it can make it seem more complicated. On Stage Lighting always tries to make things simple to here goes…….

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Stage Lighting Systems - Lighting Rig Anatomy

Learn Stage Lighting - 1 Comment - February, 27 at 12:47 pm

Stage lighting systems can contain numerous components but the elements of the system are the same. On Stage Lighting goes a quick and dirty tour of the basics of stage lighting system. If know much about stage lighting, or take things too seriously – look away now.
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LED Light Control - DMX Controllers for LED Stage Lighting

LED Stage Lighting - 14 Comments - February, 14 at 3:15 pm

As LED technology becomes cheap, using LED stage lights is a hot topic in the world of stage lighting. The possibilities of using a low power, high brightness LED light with colour mixing capabilities seems hard to resist but how do you control your LED lights? Stage lighting controllers vary widely in both cost and features so On Stage Lighting considers cheap led light control using your existing lighting desk.

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