PAINTING WITH LIGHT(-EMITTING DIODES) From colourful punk gigs to offices full of flickering tubes, from cricket pitches made of light to glowing sea monsters, LED technology has opened up many possibilities for creative cinematography. “Although the quality of tungsten light…
Powering ahead Sticking its head above the parapet in the crowded world of LED lighting is Litepanels – created by gaffers, for gaffers. At the dawn of filmmaking’s LED revolution – until which point lighting choices were largely limited to…
A close-up look at the latest lighting trends. The first thing that gaffer Julian White brings up is that, despite the fanfare still surrounding new releases, LED lights are no longer a new technology. “The first time I used an…
Beautiful but fleeting, natural light often presents DPs and gaffers with their greatest challenges. “Natural light is interesting because you can’t really control it,” states Roger Simonsz BSC. “You have to remain very flexible.” Simonsz prefers not to use artificial…
The last decade has seen incredible developments in the field of lighting thanks to the constant pursuit of power and sophistication. When things move as fast as lighting recently has, it’s easy to feel almost ambushed by change. That’s something…
WIRELESS WONDER Armed with a standout LED product, Astera carved a niche for itself in the crowded lighting market. Off the back of its latest launch, the company reveals how its international fusion of German engineering expertise and Chinese production…
AS NATURE WANTS An opinion persists that representations of nature in art are mostly about art itself rather than nature. Picasso incited: “Through art, we express our conception of what nature is not”. Does this apply to film, too? In…
Tinker Tailor Spotlight / LiteGear Tinker Tailor Spotlight / LiteGear BY: Kevin Hilton Header image: LiteGear LiteTiles in action Practical lights have largely been thought of as props operated by the actors. Recent films, particularly in the science fiction genre,…
Method LED Spotlight / Creamsource Lighting Method LED Spotlight / Creamsource Lighting BY: Michael Burns The developing story of the Creamsource brand of high-power LED luminaires began on the backlot of an animated film set in Antarctica, but its roots…
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