Tooltip Tags: Lighting

Neutral Density (ND)

Colorless filters that reduce the amount of light in controlled degrees.

Kick

An object with a shine or reflection on it from another object.

Kiss

A light that gently brushes a subject.

Lamp

A reference to the bulb inside a lighting unit, but may sometimes be used to refer to the entire lighting unit.

Ear

To put a flag up on the side of a lighting unit to block light. Better known as a ‘sider’.

Maxi-Brute

A 9 light unit with (9) 1000 watt PAR 64 lights.

Exciter Lamp

An incandescent lamp used to supply nonvarying luminous energy to a photoresponsive cell. Used in film projectors to illuminate the optical sound track.

Fay

A 650 watt PAR light with daylight balance dichroic fliter.

Feather

Moving a ‘flag’ closer to or further away from a light source that it is in front of will feather (soften/harden) the shadow on the surface upon which the light falls.

Flood

The widest beam spread on a lensed light.