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Tuesday, July 31, 2018
A recipe to master: LED color mixing
et cetera...: There’s no doubt about it—LEDs are shaking up the industry as we know it. There is a lot to be excited about as venues make the transition from tungsten light sources to LED. One of the largest areas of impact is color capabilities.
3 comments:
Jaqueline Cabrero
said...
This article was very intresting on what lighting designers can do with LED's and color mixing. By having the chance to work with LED's this past summer I can say from personal expierence that LED's are very useful when it comes to designing a piece and trying to find the right mix of colors from the board and not having to go up on a ladder or a lift to put gels into lights. In a lighting design coarse I took this summer I looked at the differences between traditional lighting and LED lighting and what it looked like side by side and I can say that both fixtures habe their positives and negatives but by having traditional lighting and the new LED lighting together it helps bring the design to another level. Overall with technology advancing and LED's taking over the lighting design world I can say that it gives lighting designers more oppurtunity to create new designs and have bigger and grander shows.
At first, this article was really interesting to read especially after hearing about LEDs in classes and workshops. But this article goes more in depth about the different ways to color mix and problems matching colors. One thing that frustrated me about this article was that it said you could change the colors a light went thru when fading from one cue to the next but it never explained how to do that. This article does state the features of using EOS board and the pros and cons of LEDs and how to optimize the use of the color picker tab, but I wish it had more information. Also, I didn't really understand what the difference between spectral and brightest buttons. This article felt like reading a textbook that seems like it’s supposed to be helpful for beginning designers and board ops, but some of the languages they used were not very easy to understand.
I'm excited to see what level these designers and programmes are taking these color mixing skills to. It is comforting to see people manipulating these instruments in new and interesting ways. As I have learned over the past few weeks LEDs might be our only option of lighting in the future and where they stand right now it is nerve-racking to think of that. LEDs in the past have been spotty when calibrating colors and functions. Not only that but buying fixtures from batch to batch is also risking considering you might not get the same color capabilities. It is reassuring to see color mixing in LEDs like you would see when stacking gels in an incandescent. Although I am excited to see what is next it was hard to grab some of the detailed information out of this article. I felt as if this article was being written for someone who knows all of the EOS families programming lingoes and not someone who is a beginning programmer. I would love not only to hear about the advancements in LEDs but how to achieve some of this mixing myself.
3 comments:
This article was very intresting on what lighting designers can do with LED's and color mixing. By having the chance to work with LED's this past summer I can say from personal expierence that LED's are very useful when it comes to designing a piece and trying to find the right mix of colors from the board and not having to go up on a ladder or a lift to put gels into lights. In a lighting design coarse I took this summer I looked at the differences between traditional lighting and LED lighting and what it looked like side by side and I can say that both fixtures habe their positives and negatives but by having traditional lighting and the new LED lighting together it helps bring the design to another level. Overall with technology advancing and LED's taking over the lighting design world I can say that it gives lighting designers more oppurtunity to create new designs and have bigger and grander shows.
At first, this article was really interesting to read especially after hearing about LEDs in classes and workshops. But this article goes more in depth about the different ways to color mix and problems matching colors. One thing that frustrated me about this article was that it said you could change the colors a light went thru when fading from one cue to the next but it never explained how to do that. This article does state the features of using EOS board and the pros and cons of LEDs and how to optimize the use of the color picker tab, but I wish it had more information. Also, I didn't really understand what the difference between spectral and brightest buttons. This article felt like reading a textbook that seems like it’s supposed to be helpful for beginning designers and board ops, but some of the languages they used were not very easy to understand.
I'm excited to see what level these designers and programmes are taking these color mixing skills to. It is comforting to see people manipulating these instruments in new and interesting ways. As I have learned over the past few weeks LEDs might be our only option of lighting in the future and where they stand right now it is nerve-racking to think of that. LEDs in the past have been spotty when calibrating colors and functions. Not only that but buying fixtures from batch to batch is also risking considering you might not get the same color capabilities. It is reassuring to see color mixing in LEDs like you would see when stacking gels in an incandescent. Although I am excited to see what is next it was hard to grab some of the detailed information out of this article. I felt as if this article was being written for someone who knows all of the EOS families programming lingoes and not someone who is a beginning programmer. I would love not only to hear about the advancements in LEDs but how to achieve some of this mixing myself.
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