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This is the first and only complete resource for lighting design, giving architects and designers--as well as engineers--all the right tools to implement quality installations. Features a graphics-rich presentation full of lighting patterns, installation photos, fixtures and schemes with costs, plus color sections displaying how to mix light and color. Inside: essential safety-and compliance-facilitating code information from the National Electric Code, Energy Policy Act, and other sources. Includes hundreds of interior and exterior details from a range of project types. ... Read more

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Filmmakers and videographers must know and understand hundreds of terms to survive in the competitive world of motion picture and television production.This invaluable reference clearly defines and illustrates more than 1000 of the most commonly used terms and phrases.


Explained are instruments and accessories such as the C-stand, brute, silver bullet, and bazooka; techniques such as the 'right-hand rule' and the blue-screen process; technical concepts such as the inverse square law and light colour temperature;
colourful phrases such as 'beach it', 'shake 'em up', and 'martini shot'; and other popular neologisms often devised by bored grips waiting for the next shot - terms such as sputnik, quacker, branchaloris, and flying moon.Various lighting fixtures and accessories are featured in 70 photographs and illustrations.Far more accessible and readable than most technical books devoted to lighting, Lighting Terms and Concepts contains all of the terms that cinematographers, lighting directors, camera operators and assistants, gaffers, electricians, and grips may encounter during a typical day on the set. ... Read more

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This will be the first ever comprehensive handbook on nearly every aspect of lighting technology, design, and the professional practice of lighting design. Richly illustrated with hundred of photos and lighting plots, including a 16-page colour insert demonstrating the principles of colour in lighting design. ... Read more

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Lighting Design Handbook
Lee Watson and his Lighting Design Handbook were both ahead of their time and behind the times.A brilliant Lighting Designer Lee's credits spanned 15 Broadway productions in the mid 1950s and early 1960s and then brought the art of lighting design to Operas, Industrial shows, and the Seattle World's Fair.

If you are looking for a book on how to program modern moving light shows avoid this book as it is way behind the time!While the moving and blinking light shows popular today existed when Watson created this handbook, they were relegated to providing the visual eye candy associated with fairly boring music.

If, on the other hand, you are interested in how light can be a communicative tool in the visual, commercial, and performing arts this book is a must read and must have for your library.

I was fortunate enough to design scenery for several productions where Lee Watson provided the lighting design. I know from that experience how clearly his Handbook takes you through methods and examples of how lighting has become an expressive art form.Also, as a contemporary of most of the 20th Century Lighting Designers he also includes ideas and thoughts from these skilled professionals to stimulate your imagination.
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Discusses living spaces and other areas intended to create a residential atmosphere, such as executive suites, lounges and waiting rooms. Guidance is provided on how to achieve effective lighting solutions while allowing for freedom of imagination and originality in design. ... Read more

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Basic Lighting Worktext for Film and Video guides the film and video student through a series of readings, exercises and projects designed to provide the fundamentals of light science. In addition to up-to-date descriptions of equipment and tips on how to use it properly, the book provides numerous set-ups that illustrate the techniques and thoughts behind proper studio and location lighting.

From this book, you will learn:
* The fundamentals of light and electricity in film
* The fine distinction of lighting for video versus lighting for film
* How to identify and filter sources such as daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, arc, HNI and industrial discharge lamps
* The use of lensed and open-faced lighting fixtures
* How tomodify with barndoors, scrims, snoots, nets, cookies, and other accessories
* Variations on the basic three-point lighting setup
* The duties of each member of a lighting unit
* How to light night exteriors, day interiors, and campfires
* High-key, low-key, and modulated value lighting
* How to scout locations, plan lighting, plots, and pre-rig sets ... Read more

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A technical guide to the basic theory and practice of lighting, aimed at practitioners of lighting in the entertainment industry, and those involved with stage, film, television and still photography. This book covers the equipment in use, and provides insights into design requirements, writing specifications, awarding contracts and purchasing equipment. It emphasizes safety implications and discusses current legislation. ... Read more

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The first book of its kind to introduce the problems of location lighting for single camera operators and provide an insight into the technology and techniques required to solve those problems. The approach is of a basic and introductory nature, geared toward the student and trainee cameraman. Professionals needing a refresher course on the subject will also find this an invaluable reference packed with key information, theory and practical approaches to different lighting situations.

*Teaches you how to master the essentials of lighting and make professional choices in difficult location lighting conditions

*Features intruductory techniques from an experienced instructor

*Provides the solutions to everyday lighting dilemmas ... Read more

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Stage Lighting Controls gives the reader an historical overview of the way in which modern control systems have evolved, and then explains the general principles of modern computerised lighting consoles and relevant control standards such as DMX512, MIDI and Ethernet.It also covers the basic aspects of controlling moving lights and scrollers and provides a product profile for ten major manufacturers of lighting controls.

Written in accessible language, the book is ideal for both novices and practising lighting designers who need to get updated on current practices and equipment. It is also relevant for stage managers, electricians, technicians and any other production staff who are involved in situations where lights are controlled.

Cuts through the complexity of modern equipment
Helps operators to move from system to system more easily
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A complete primer on concert lighting as well as thorough explanations of applications to TV, film, video, and theatre.



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Customer Reviews (6)

Lighting
Book came promptly after purchase and in better quality than I was expecting. No markings or damage to item at all, nearly pristine condition.

Update of a great book.
This book continues in the vein of the first and is full of excellent info for anyone interested in tourine, with data also useful for your regular Theatre-Bound technician

Title was misleading
This book would be better titled Technical Details of Rock Concert Lighting.It had a lot of technical details on the hardware, but not much on the actual art of concert lighting (only one chapter: Chapter 6).I suspect that the hardware would come with their own manuals, but maybe they don't and you need a book like this.Also, the pictures are interesting but they don't seem to be all that elucidating of the key concepts -- too much detail without organizing themes, in my humble opinion.I was hoping to gain insight into classical symphony concert lighting as an art form, but there is very little of that.For me, it was like getting a book titled Painting, and finding out that it spent one chapter on the art of painting and the rest of the pages on the brush types, paint types, canvas types, easel structure, the organic chemistry of paints, the material response of canvas, the evaporation dynamics of paints, etc.If you are a rock concert visual director and need technical reviews to supplement your hardware manuals, then this might be useful.If you want to know about the lighting for the NY Philharmonic, or the art of lighting, then this is not the book for you.If the author retitled the book to "Technical Details of Rock Concert Lighting," then I would probably give it 4 stars.I'm glad I just borrowed a copy instead of buying it.It seems like the author put in a lot time into it.I hope that the next edition will have a better title and more useful figures.

An absolute must for anyone in charge of the finer technical details of a concert
A good concert is about more than the music. "Concert Lighting: Techniques, Art, and Business" is the third edition of Focal Presses's acclaimed guide to the importance of good lighting in concert settings. James Moody is an experienced theatre technician, and Paul Dexter has done lighting for some of the biggest acts in Rock such as Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue. Good lighting enhances the music, makes the experience more memorable and more likely to return for another show. "Concert Lighting" is an absolute must for anyone in charge of the finer technical details of a concert.

Very informative
I found alot of useful information. Especially in the business aspects of Concert Lighting. General History of concert lighting is very indepth. As for the art and techniques in the book, I found the book to be very basic. I'm not a lighting Designer. The only experience I have. Is hands on experience. This business is very secretive. This book has alot of the answers. ... Read more

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This book stands alone as the first general survey of lighting in Byzantium. Although relatively well known by specialists, Byzantine lighting devices have not been treated independently, but rather presented and discussed in connection with other Byzantine minor arts. The first part of the book discusses the technology and types of lighting devices and explains their decorative symbolism and social function. The second half illustrates this narrative by drawing on a Dumbarton Oaks exhibition, “Lighting in Early Byzantium,” which presented to the public some of the finest surviving late Roman and early Byzantine lighting devices. Some of these are now published for the first time.

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This text first traces the history of daylighting and other sources of light, up to the end of the 19th century to show the effect light has had on the form of buildings, and then establishes how architects and designers today should approach the lighting of historic buildings in the context of present day technology. Historic buildings form a large part of a nation's heritage, whether used for their original purpose, such as a theatre, a railway terminus or house, or alternatively where the use has completely changed and the functional requirements of the new outweigh the needs of the old. For example a redundant building transformed into an art gallery. ... Read more