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Long Beach City College lighting class thanks Hive Lighting for sharing plasma lights

By Admin November 24, 2015 November 24, 2015 728 member, crew, lbccmvp, Lighting Facts, local 728, show lights

If you have never heard of plasma light then you may have missed science class in grade school. It is not something we all understand but it is a real and visible light. According to the HIVE Lighting web page http://hivelighting.com it says the following about Plasma light-

Hive Lighting is plasma, each bulb a microstar, a ball of super heated noble gases, captured in a quartz capsule the size of a kernel of corn. Hive combines the bulb with revolutionary optical systems in fixtures we are proud to source, manufacture and design all locally in the entertainment capital of the world.

The instructor of Long Beach City College’s lighting class gave a homework assignment to reach out to the hollywood lighting industry and invite whoever you choose to contact to be a guest speaker to our class. One ambitious student contacted HIVE Lighting located in downtown Los Angeles who manufactures, rents and sells a line of plasma based lighting fixtures and Hive accepted. Our students were blessed to have them recently visit our studio.

These fixtures have the capability to be color temperature controlled to a certain degree and can be used in the Hollywood film and tv industry as well as architectural applications. The daylight colors are as blue or bluer as you may need. On the warm side of the Kelvin scale these fixtures can be dialed to around 4500′-4700′ K. The rest of the color balancing of the light to make it produce 3200′ K is done with a half CTO gell. The lamps can be diffused with various included frames.

Hive was very cool about coming to our school studio and setting up one of their lamps for our class to experience. Shown in the photo below is a lamp called the WASP. Hive also shared sunglasses with our class as seen in the photo above.

Long Beach City College lighting class would like to extend a grateful ‘thank you’ to Hive Lighting for sharing with us. It is this extension of education and reaching out that brings our community together. There is also a level of industry maintenance, as these upcoming producers now have new knowledge and a friend in the business when it comes to questions about renting lights.

HIVE Lighting can be located and found at –

411 S. HEWITT ST | LOS ANGELES, CA 90013
INFO@HIVELIGHTING.COM
(310) 773-4362

Divine lighting is a gift from the Lord for All to be enlightened by

By Admin November 20, 2015 November 20, 2015 728 member, crew, lighting designs, Lighting Facts, local 728, show lights

Hollywood Lighting Partners didn’t get asked to light this monument in Brazil, the CNN tour in Toronto or anywhere else in the world but wanted to take a minute to recognize the beautiful tribute to our French brothers and sisters from lighting technicians worldwide.

Quality lighting doesn’t just happen. It’s what lighting technicians do!

By Admin November 14, 2015 November 14, 2015 728 member, crew, lbccmvp, lighting designs, lighting director, Lighting Facts, local 728, peter pearce, scott spencer, set lighting designs, show lights, show looks, Uncategorized

Hollywood Lighting Partners knows that quality lighting doesn’t just happen. Many think you can just get a good camera and start shooting, but in reality the best way to get quality footage is to use quality lighting to enhance the look of your project. Taking this time and step ensures that your camera can actually see the story you are trying to tell as opposed to just seeing everything you point it at.

Hollywood is full of quality lighting technicians and many can be found on our IATSE Local 728 Set Lighting Technician roster. Unfortunately our local doesn’t list the roster on it’s web page so we remain nameless.

The good thing is that as technicians in Hollywood we get to work with some of the best equipment and biggest names in production on the biggest lots. It is great experience and can be a lot of fun.

Whether it’s conventional tungsten lighting, dmx controlled moving lights, LED, HMI, theatrical/commercial/live show or your christmas lights for the holidays, 728 electricians are knowledgable and familiar. We are there to support cinematographers and our Local 600 brothers and sisters to help create the looks that win the awards for the director’s chair folks and the video village crowds.

Caleb Deshchanel and Colin Campbell discuss Hollywood

By Admin November 11, 2015 November 11, 2015 728 member, hollywood lighting partners set lighting designs, lbccmvp, lighting designs, lighting director, Lighting Facts, local 728, peter pearce

Hollywood Lighting Partners worked with cinematographer Caleb Deschanel and his gaffer Colin Campbell recently and thought these Hollywood cinema moments were worth capturing.

Hollywood Lighting Partners likes the latitude in HD

By Admin November 11, 2015 November 11, 2015 728 member, lbccmvp, lighting director, Lighting Facts, local 728, peter pearce, show lights

Hollywood Lighting Partners owner and Local 600 DP, Pete Pearce loves the technology that HD recording allows. “HD chips see so much that you really have to be careful when painting with light and creating the dramatic looks. The light ratios must be considered and light control diligently monitored” says Pete.

In the photo above, a 1000w stage work light illuminates the stage wall and some phone wires. You can see the range of contrast from the shape of the bulb in the lamp which normally would blow out and you can see much detail in this relatively low light situation which is maybe an 8 stop latitude or more. Also, the grainy look is what many video film makers are looking for to imitate the film look which can be achieved when tricking and stretching the limits of the HD cameras and their CMOS chips.

Hollywood Lighting Partners knows sometimes gripping ain’t easy.

By Admin November 11, 2015 November 11, 2015 728 member, crew, Lighting Facts, local 728, show lights

Hollywood Lighting Partners knows to help control light properly you need the assistance of the Grip department.

Some gaffers really need to control the light, using every C-stand available thoroughly peeling the Grip department and lighting techs that need to get to the light.

IATSE 728 Set Lighting Technicians at work.

By Admin November 11, 2015 November 11, 2015 728 member, crew, local 728

Super-juicer candidates and IATSE 728 set lighting techs, Jorge Kunze and Seam Smith

stand ready to move gaffer, Colin Campbell’s light.

Looking West at the World from my scissor lift while getting ready for night.

By Admin November 11, 2015 November 11, 2015 728 member, crew, lbccmvp, local 728, peter pearce, Uncategorized

The fall skies in Los Angeles are always so colorful.

IATSE 728 set lighting tech, Pete Pearce, looks west during a shoot near Valencia, California.

Haskell Wexler visits the set and meets Pete Pearce

By Admin November 10, 2015 November 10, 2015 728 member, crew, lighting director, local 728, peter pearce

The great cinematographer Haskell Wexler came to visit a set we were working on.

He has pioneered so many things in our industry (see mini bio below) and deserves maximum respect.

Thank you Haskell.

Haskell Wexler Mini Bio- Two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler was adjudged one of the ten most influential cinematographers in movie history, according to an International Cinematographers Guild survey of its membership. He won his Oscars in both black & white and color, for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) (1966) and Bound for Glory(1976) (1976). He also shot much of Days of Heaven (1978) (1978), for which credited director of photography Nestor Almendros — who was losing his eye-sight, won a Best Cinematography Oscar that Wexler feels should have been jointly shared by both. In 1993, Wexler was awarded a Lifetime Achivement award by the cinematographer’s guild, the American Society of Cinematographers. He received five Oscar nominations for his cinematography, in total, plus one Emmy Award in a career that has spanned six decades. Wexler was active as recently as 2007.

In addition to his masterful cinematography, Wexler directed the seminal late Sixties film Medium Cool (1969) and has directed and/or shot many documentaries that display his progressive political views. He was the subject of a 2004 documentary shot by his son Mark Wexler, Tell Them Who You Are (2004).

Pete Pearce has been nominated for 2 television lighting Emmy’s.

Lighting tech Pete Pearce discovers ballast central.

By Admin November 10, 2015 November 10, 2015 728 member, hollywood lighting partners set lighting designs, Lighting Facts, local 728, peter pearce, show lights, Uncategorized

Some shows have dimmer rooms. This new tv show has a room full of HMI ballasts. The grid in the bar has a ring of 4k’s around it that get turned on and off depending on the direction the camera is looking.