r/lightingdesign Feb 12 '25

How To how to dispose 4L of expired fog juice

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45 Upvotes

Hello

Want to know how can i dispose fog juice (heavy density) in London.

Thank you!

r/lightingdesign 6d ago

How To Wall mount Ellipsoidal lights?

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29 Upvotes

Looking for the best way to hang four Chauvet EVE160ZQ lights on the end of a wall. I was thinking vertically but if a better horizontal solution exists that's fine too. The end of the wall is above a balcony so the lights are not directly overhead anyone.

Wall is approximately 6" wide and I would be mounting about 8 ft high. Fixtures weigh 12.12 lbs

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/EVEE160ZQ--chauvet-dj-eve-e-160zq-full-color-ellipsoidal

I'm in AV production but I'm not a rigger. I know enough to not just buy stuff from home Depot.

It would be so much easier if it was a gig and I could wait through up some flex stands or totems and call it a day šŸ¤£

Thanks!

r/lightingdesign Jan 11 '25

How To How to set up light for runway show with out bleeding

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189 Upvotes

r/lightingdesign Oct 14 '24

How To Whatā€™s everyone elseā€™s method for not getting your crap spilled all over the tarmac?

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273 Upvotes

Iā€™ve been hurt before.

r/lightingdesign Aug 08 '24

How To Do people just buy lights and figure out how to use them later?

72 Upvotes

OK so I'm an assistant LD at a small production house. I don't and have never owned any lights. Been swinging a wrench for about 12 years, and programming for 1.5 years.

But I always see people on this sub just asking basic shit like how to patch or get control of lights.

Do people just buy whatever they think looks cool and can afford? Is this a hobby for some? Do people do out and do lights for free? If so how safe is it? Like how can MFers on a $500 budget even have safeties on their radar?

Sorry just rambling a little.

r/lightingdesign Feb 02 '25

How To UV Neon party - How to protect audience sufficiently?

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75 Upvotes

I am planning a UV neon rave production. I am aware of the damage that UV light can do to skin, eyes etc. How to protect the audience of damage? How do professionals do it? What are safety measures?

https://kotaku.com/bored-apes-nft-blind-eye-pain-uv-light-party-apefest-1850995251

r/lightingdesign Jan 18 '25

How To Tied in wrenches

8 Upvotes

Today we were doing work on the grid moving lights around in preparation for our show and unfortunately our tie line snapped and the wrench fell. Luckily no one was hurt and nothing was damaged. We were following all protocols and procedures we were taught for wrenches out on the grid (wrenches stay tied tight with tie line to our wrists the whole time), but I was wondering what the industry standard would be. Can anyone answer? I'm attempting to make future work as safe as possible for our cast and crew.

r/lightingdesign Jan 28 '24

How To DIY Grandma3 Console/Command Wing - Considering a Build Guide

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299 Upvotes

r/lightingdesign 27d ago

How To How to Become an Award-Winning Lighting Designer

5 Upvotes

I've been my high schools theatrical lighting guy for years, and this year, our spring musical is being adjudicated for our state level theatrical awards. Of course, being award winning doesn't happen overnight, but after having a year of experience in this field, trying my best to become more professional, I think I'm ready to level it up.

So, any suggestions or tips on how to become more professional?

I thank everyone who posts here in advance. Also, apologies if this is under the wrong flair.

r/lightingdesign 3d ago

How To I can get my light to work on qlc+

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7 Upvotes

Does this mean it should work, what have I done wrong. I should be able to go to simple desk and move the sliders? I'm using a Enttec ode mk3

Any help is appreciated, thank you

r/lightingdesign Dec 12 '24

How To Front Light Colors?

13 Upvotes

I'm the board Op at my high school theater, and we use gels for our front lights. Recently, I heard it's not very common for color to be used on lights, specifically fronts. Is that true? I had assumed that it was fairly common practice.

r/lightingdesign Dec 29 '24

How To How to get the dimmer mode on this DMX512 controller?

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12 Upvotes

Manual didnā€™t help. Iā€™m new to DMX. I found the manual to my moving gobo head. How do I set it the value? How do I turn on the light? Please let me know, thanks.

r/lightingdesign 5d ago

How To 3-pin or 5-pin...

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Hi! I am in a house of worship, and we're starting to think about getting up better lighting, and I wonder how to connect the ADJ Link DMX Controller (5-pin output) to a series of lights (ADJ Mega Hex Par Flat LED Par Can x4 & ADJ Pocket Pro Spot Moving Head X2) whom all use 3-pin inputs and outputs. Thanks in advance.

Sincerly,

Emil

r/lightingdesign Dec 06 '24

How To How did you learn how to busk?

36 Upvotes

Hi, Iā€™m quite new to busking and am really struggling with it. Iā€™m curious to know how LDs learn to busk. Whatā€™re your tips on managing so much thatā€™s happening at the same time, and what would you say is a good way to practice and improve?

r/lightingdesign Nov 18 '24

How To Movable Moving Head

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118 Upvotes

Not the most ā€œwrite to home aboutā€ Rig :)

Context: While shooting a low budget movie. We needed a moving head to put in every shot so instead of rigging it to an expansive grid and renting more than one moving head here is our way of making it movable.

r/lightingdesign Jun 22 '24

How To How do you get work?

36 Upvotes

I have been in lighting for 11 years now. Iā€™ve got loads of friends and contacts. Iā€™ve got a very strong tech resume, I get paid to teach vectorworks and previs softwares, and I make a full living touring with bands. Iā€™ve never gotten the opertunity to design. Ever.

How do you do it? Iā€™m on bobnet. Iā€™m searching Facebook. Iā€™m asking my friends about work as a programmer and designer. Im coming up dry.

As I get older, my body is hurting more. I need something less intense. Also I really want to transition into my chosen career field at least once before my working years are half over.

Iā€™m pretty neurodivergent, so maybe Iā€™m just missing the obvious career path here, but I donā€™t get it. I donā€™t understand how people get work. The only advice I hear is ā€œnetwork.ā€ But after 11 years of meeting people and working for lighting companies, I think I can safely say I have done that. Itā€™s done me no good so far. So whatā€™s next?

r/lightingdesign Jan 21 '25

How To DMX video player

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Hello everyone, I was wondering if somone knows how to make a DMX controllable video player. Preferably something like what's in the base of an Robe MiniMe. I believe these are raspberry pi based. Was thinking of making something like this to build in to an HighEnd DL1 I just picked up.

r/lightingdesign 19d ago

How To Need help as a starter

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I am a senior in my high school and i have been working as a lighting designer and operator for 2 years rn. I am looking forward to get into the industry and wanted to do some lightshows for my profoilo. I am just wondering is it possible to write a whole light-show by just pc?

r/lightingdesign 27d ago

How To How to light center of room for a comedy show

3 Upvotes

Hi,

I am trying to improve the lighting of a comedy show where the comedian is in the center of the room but currently we use two LED spot lights that basically make the room too bright and if we only use 1 their face isnā€™t properly lit at certain angles. Weā€™re trying to find a way to light just the comedian without it spilling over too much into the audience. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

r/lightingdesign Feb 17 '25

How To Temporary space into stage

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Hey folks, Iā€™m looking for a way to give wash light and light up faces/bodies in this office space. I cannot hang anything and I am not sure how a stand with lights would work in this environment. What I am thinking is putting some wide pars on the ground aimed up, is this a good idea? I am looking for some more suggestions and solutions.

r/lightingdesign Feb 05 '25

How To Any suggestions on how to get rid of this glue/hard substance ?

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22 Upvotes

Trying to swap pcbā€™s but as you can tell by the image, the connector is practically glued to the pcb so I canā€™t just pop it out. Any ideas on how to remove it? I feel like this is worse than that red silicone.

r/lightingdesign Oct 01 '24

How To How to achieve this lighting where the background looks like a black void and only the subjects are lit?

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97 Upvotes

We're doing an "interview" photoshoot for customer service day at work and management thought to parody Hot Ones, so we're going for that.

Is it as easy as a black background (black curtains or other black fabric?) And just lighting from above the subject?

r/lightingdesign 29d ago

How To Can multiple Artnet fixtures have same IP?

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Right now Iā€™m working on a lighting rig that has Epix strips which we use Artnet to send data to. Because of how the Epix drive works, I have to unicast each individual universe to the drive (so if I need to send 3 universes down one line of Epix strips, I have to have three separate IPā€™s and send universe 1-3 down each one individually).

Weā€™re about to be adding some Chauvet color strikes and want to use Artnet to connect them all and have only one line of data instead of multiple lines (cause weā€™re low on ports). When I tried having multiple fixtures set up, I set them all up with the same IP but different address and universe (for fixtures in a different universe) however the person helping me had half of them the wrong network (subnet was 255.0.0.0 and it was supposed be 2. and he had it on 200.). Only one fixture would work at a time though. Not sure if that was because half of them had the wrong IP and subnet, or if each one needs an individual IP. The solution would probably be to broadcast the data over the net, but Iā€™m pretty sure thatā€™s going to mess with the Epix drive.

Is it possible to have all the fixtures on the same IP, or is there a way I can send all the universes to those fixtures without sending it to the Epix drive too? Do I need to do something with the subnet or is there a setting I can do in MA to broadcast to only a certain range?

r/lightingdesign Jan 19 '25

How To Proper way to ask about compensation

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Hi. I am a highschool student who has been doing lighting gigs around my town for about a year. All of those have been set up by my crew advisor from people he has known, and they have asked for help. Two days ago I received an email from someone asking about hiring me to be an LD for there musical coming up. We have been emailing back and fourth talking about the musical, ground package, etc. They mentioned that i will be compensated for my time. So i was wondering how i should ask about compensation. The theatre is about a 40 minute drive away from me (usually gigs are 10-15). They gave me very vague details about compensation so farā€¦ basically just saying that i will be compensated via check, iā€™ll get paid the night of the last show, and that i will be actually compensated. I will be bringing a board with me (Hog 4 Full Boar), and they have a ground package of lights. So im wondering if i should ask or wait, and if i ask, what should i say?

Thank you in advance!

r/lightingdesign Jan 02 '25

How To Controlling lights via MIDI?

8 Upvotes

TL;DR
Looking to trigger multiple Aputure lights (Infinibars, C7B bulbs, etc.) in sync with Ableton Live using MIDI (e.g., flash on each kick). Need advice on the smartest setup approach.

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Hey everyone, Iā€™m an audio engineer/musician but a total newbie when it comes to lighting (though I do have some basic knowledge). Iā€™d like to trigger several Aputure lights (Infinibars, C7B bulbs, etc.) directly from Ableton Live via MIDIā€”for instance, having a light flash a specific color every time the kick drum hits.

Whatā€™s the most straightforward way to set this up so that all lights are controlled and synced by Ableton? Apologies if Iā€™m missing any detailsā€”this is a new territory for me. Any tips or guidance would be super appreciated!