ACADEMY LIGHTINGMASTERCLASS
ADVENTURES IN LIGHTING
Find out how careful use of colour in your lighting design can make a huge difference to the atmosphere in your movies. Writer and director TomPaton explains all
WORDS KINGSLEY SINGLETON
GET SOME COLOUR
NANGUANG RGB173
£399/$400 kenro.co.uk
Adding atmospheric colour to your movies is easier and more affordable than ever, thanks in the main to bi-colour and RGB LED lights. Bi-colour lights are usually going to give you a range of colour temperatures, say between 3150K and 6300K. So that might give you some slight variation, but if you want more striking colour effects you’ll want a full-spectrum RGB light. Of course you can always go down the route of adding gels to a white LED, too, and many lights come with bespoke options to fit directly to them.
The NanGuang RGB173 LED can be used as a stepless white light from 3200-5600K at CRI 95, and with 0-100% brightness control, as well as offering 360 more colours bymixing its red, green and
blue LEDs. As well as solid colours, there’s a colour cycling mode, and flash mode to simulate effects like emergency lighting, television and firelight. The RGB173 has a 27Woutput and can be controlled on the light or remotely. It can run off the mains or a pair of Sony NP-F type batteries.
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