Mole Richardson lighting works with Hollywood Lighting Partners.

By Admin December 5, 2016 December 5, 2016 728 member, crew, industrial control, lighting designs, lighting director, Lighting Facts, local 728, peter pearce, peter pearce lighting designs, set lighting designs, show lights

When you need a giant light in the sky the guys at Hollywood Lighting Partners can get you set up. Mole Richardson has great lights for this task. Preparing for a night shot in Huntington Beach.

Hollywood Lighting Partners knows good lighting and camera work matter.

By Admin December 5, 2016 December 5, 2016 728 member, Camera, crew, hollywood lighting partners set lighting designs, lighting designs, Lighting Facts, local 728, set lighting designs, show lights, show looks

When producers put the money out to make a production they expect it to look right. That is where the team at Hollywood Lighting Partners can help your show out. Our crew has the experience to get the job done. Whether it is a conventional light 3 camera sit com show or an 11 camera dance show, our team can help you get it done and sent to the editors.

We have contacts all over Hollywood and can get you the gear you need for the required look of your show.

Tungsten, HMI, film, video, 4K, moving lights, LED or UV no problem. We have experience doing fashion, live performance and many comedy’s and dramas.

Shoot an email to Hollywood Lighting Partners at lightingpartners728@gmail.com and let’s talk.

The guys at Hollywood Lighting Partners hanging moving lights on truss.

By Admin December 5, 2016 December 5, 2016 728 member, crew, hollywood lighting partners set lighting designs, lighting designs, lighting director, lighting director pete pearce, local 728, show lights

When the show requires hanging motors and pulling truss up with chain, the lighting guys at Hollywood Lighting Partners have loads of experience lighting for some of entertainments biggest productions.

Our guys have worked on many types of shows and have experience with conventional light as well as moving lights, HMI lights, LED lighting and more.

When you have a show that requires some lighting, and they all should, then consider working with Hollywood Lighting Partners. We work with all sized projects and budgets including everything from a simple corporate interview to giant stage productions.

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Hollywood Lighting Partners shares with Long Beach City College Radio/TV

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Hollywood Lighting Partner, Pete Pearce, has been teaching lighting at Long Beach City College in the Radio/TV Department since 2001.

Hollywood Lighting Partners uses soft lights: Briese, Rifa & Gemball

By Admin June 3, 2016 June 3, 2016 728 member, Camera, crew, peter pearce, peter pearce lighting designs, set lighting designs, show lights, show looks

Hollywood Lighting Partners went nuts and used a combo of Briese Lights, Gemballs and Rifa lights for the backstage and behind the scenes shots for a model tv shoot.

“The quality of the soft lighting is awesome and compliments the beauty of the models that compete on this show. The look of the show is important to me as the executive producer knows quality lighting and her models deserve it” said gaffer and Hollywood Lighting Partners member Peter Pearce.

“It gets tricky sometimes as there are many things happening and cameras everywhere, but it’s a lot of fun and the whole team is awesome to work with. I love them and have gone to Germany 3 times to visit the TMT Lighting Team in Munich just to say hello and drink beers with them.”

Hollywood Lighting Partners shares a TV 2 way technique

By Admin June 2, 2016 June 2, 2016 Camera, crew, Lighting Facts, set lighting designs, show looks

Hollywood Lighting Partners shared with the students of the Long Beach City College television studios lighting department a technique on how to create a 2 way interview on stage.

We set a host and a guest up in 2 areas of the stage and created a split screen image on the board in the control room. The guest sits in front of a dock in Barcelona posted on a green screen behind her.

This easy effect is a way to put the news anchors and the weather girl on the same screen for viewers or also on-site sports reporters from the big game.

Hollywood Lighting Partners helps share TV with LBCC students

By Admin June 2, 2016 June 2, 2016 728 member, Camera, crew, lighting designs, show looks

Hollywood Lighting Partners had the pleasure of helping share the television process with visiting Long Beach City College students on the set of the Doctors daytime tv show.

The students came to the Paramount Studio lot and got to walk through the various positions of departments on set and behind the scenes that make it all happen. Some students even ventured up to the spotlight platform where the above photo was taken from.

It is was fun to have visitors curious about the television process visit and the production staff there was super skilled and happy to share and inspire. This is a really good example of quality crew, production and television coming together.

Hollywood Lighting Partners shares depth of field chart

By Admin June 2, 2016 June 2, 2016 728 member, Camera, crew, lighting director pete pearce, Lighting Facts, peter pearce, peter pearce lighting designs, show looks

Hollywood Lighting Partners would like to share this basic camera knowledge with you. Above is a great chart showing the viewer the relationship of lens and distance when it comes to depth of field and exposure.

As you can see the higher the number F-stop, the deeper the depth of field focus and the smaller the lens hole. This is easiest to get everything in focus but requires lighting or plenty of daylight. When the lens is at the highest numbered F-stop it is called ‘closed down’. So a cameraman could tell the director who is asking for a darker picture at the beach, “I’m closed down all the way.” In this case it may be that you need a ND 3 filter at the beach to knock the light down 1 stop further to maybe F32 and/or change exposure ASA/ISO setting.

As the f-stop number comes lower so does the depth of field focus and the lens hole gets wider. This might be needed for exposure in various lighting situations or for storytelling and viewer attention aspects.

When your lens is ‘wide open’ the f-stop number is as low as you can go. This lets the most light in the lens while shooting in the darkest of situations but is a nightmare for the focus puller who might be trying to follow a moving subject. As you dig for exposure in dark situations, changing the ASA/ISO setting may help, but also adds grain and can wash out detail to your picture.

The way Hollywood Lighting Partners will light the past in the future.

By Admin November 24, 2015 June 2, 2016 728 member, crew, hollywood lighting partners set lighting designs, lighting designs, Lighting Facts, local 728, peter pearce, set lighting designs, show lights

Hollywood Lighting Partners would like to thank the Arri Group of partners for their contributions to the entertainment industry. Besides great cameras, Arri makes an 18K daylight balanced light called the Arrimax. Since technically we have grown beyond film and into the HD world we have had to adjust lighting for video chips. Granted the new high end HD cameras can see 10+ stops of light we still need to be concious of contrast and exposure. These Arri lights are great for squirting diffused daylight onto your set where ever the camera may need to see it filling in the shadows or blasting in some hard light as if the sun was coming straight in the window.

Thank you Arri.

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